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Interchurch  World  Movement 


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Financial  Campaign 

Church  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ 

$4,000,000       April  25— May  2,  1920 


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irt  One. 
;hurch  World  Movement. 

Origin  of  the  Interchurch  Movement. 
History  of  the  Interchurch  Movement. 
Purpose  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movem- 

Part  Two. 
The  United  Enlistment  Movement. 
Origin  of  the  United  Enlistment  Movement 
History  of  the  United  Enlistment  Movement 
Purpose  of  the  United  Enlistment  Movemen' 
Organization  and  Personnel.. 
The  Survevs       ..,...-.,.. 


Part  Three. 
General  Program  of  the.  United  Enlistment  Movement. 
9.    Foreign  Mission  Department. 

10.  Home  Mission  Department. , 

11.  Church  Erection  Department. 

12.  Sunday-School  Department  ... 

13.  Young  People's  Department- . 

14.  Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary .  . 
I5v    Department  of  Colleges. .... 

16.     Ministerial  Support  and  Relief 

Part  Four. 
General  Information. 
i7-     Budget  and  Appropriation. 

18.  How  the  Apportionment  was  Made, 

19.  Red  Letter  Days  in  the  Cam.paign 

20.  Preliminary  Gifts . 


Programs  and  Address?^? 

21.  Suggestions  for  Sunday-School  Leaders-  ■ . 

22.  W.  M.  A.  and  O.  G.  April  Meeting  Progran- 

23.  Suggestive  Outlines  for  Addresses. .  .  . 
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Movement 


PART  ONE. 
THE  INTERCHURCH  WORLD  MOVEMENT. 


Chapter  1. 
The  Origin  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

For  the  origin  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement 
we  must  go  back  beyond  the  meeting  held  in  New  York, 
December  17,  1918,  in  response  to  a  call  of  the  Foreign 
Mission  Board  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  South.  That 
board  but  seized  the  psychological  moment.  The  way  for 
such  unified  action  had  been  paved  by  organizations  such 
as  the  Student  Volunteer  Movement,  through  whose  in- 
spiration and  guidance  thousands  of  young  men  and 
women  had  been  sent  into  all  parts  of  the  world;  as  the 
Missionary  Education  Movement,  which  extended  the  con- 
ception of  Missions  into  the  rank  and  file  of  our  young 
people;  as  the  Laymen's  Missionary  Movement  and  the 
Men  and  Religion  Forward  Movement,  which  reached  the 
business  man  and  pressed  home  the  claims  of  Christ  upon 
his  life  and  pocket-book,  and  finally  as  the  Federal  Coun- 
cil of  Churches,  which  from  the  years  of  beginnings,  1895- 
1908,  through  the  decade.  1908-1918,  of  positive  and  pro- 
gressive program  proved  to  the  public  that  the  churches 
could  work  together  on  certain  universal,  fundamental 
planks  of  the  church's  program. 

How  effectively  the  way  had  been  prepared  is  to  be 
seen  in  the  avidity  with  which  the  churches  responded  to 
that  call,  and  in  the  rapidity  with  which  the  new  organ- 
ization got  to  work  on  its  program  of  opposing  to  the 
vast  hordes  of  heathenism,  paganism,  and  indifference  a 
United  Protestant  Evangelical  Host. 


Chapter  2. 
The  History  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

The  first  item  of  actual  history  of  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement  is  to  be  found  in  the  meeting  of  De- 
cember 17,  1918,  called  by  the  Executive  Committee  of 
Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 


States  South,  in  which  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  repre- 
sentatives of  Home  and  Foreign  Missionary  boards,  Inter- 
denominational and  Undenominational  agencies  expressed 
their  unanimous  opinion  that  the  time  had  come  for  the 
working  bodies  of  the  churches  to  relate  their  activities 
so  as  to  present  a  united  front.  A  committee  of  twenty 
was  appointed  to  draft  tentative  plans  of  co-operation  and 
report  to  the  interdenominational  agencies  that  were  to 
meet  within  a  month. 

In  January,  1919,  the  Foreign  Missions  Conference  of 
North  America,  the  Home  Missions  Council,  the  Council 
of  Church  Boards  of  Education,  the  Sunday-school  Coun- 
cil of  Evangelical  Denominations  in  the  United  States  and 
Canada,  the  Federation  of  Women's  Boards  of  Foreign 
Missions  of  North  America,  and  the  Council  of  Women 
for  Home  Missions  each  met  and  endorsed  the  report  of 
this  committee  of  twenty,  and  with  this  endorsement  the 
Inter-Church  World  Movement  may  be  said  to  have  come 
into  being.  It  was  rapidly  endorsed  by  denominational 
organizations  until  now  it  includes  something  like  forty- 
two  denominations  and  one  hundred  and  forty  boards. 

The  plans  and  program  of  the  Movement  have  been  dis- 
cussed and  debated  at  such  meetings  as  the  Pastors'  Con- 
ference, held  in  Pittsburgh,  in  April,  1919,  when  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  ministers  from  all  parts  of  the  coun- 
try adopted  the  program;  and  the  Cleveland  Inter-board 
Conference  (April  29-May  1)  in  which  five  hundred  men 
and  women,  most  conversant  with  the  needs  of  our  de- 
nominations, expressed  their  judgment  that  the  Inter- 
church  World  Movement  was  both  providential  and  im- 
perative. 

Various  meetings  were  held  during  the  summer  and 
early  fall  to  make  known  the  character  of  the  Movement 
and  to  get  the  various  departments  into  functioning  order. 
It  was  in  September,  at  Cleveland,  that  a  united,  simul- 
taneous, financial  campaign  was  decided  upon  to  be  held 
in  the  spring  of  1920. 

The  high-tide  mark  of  the  Movement,  up  to  date,  was 
measured  in  the  World  Survey  Conference,  held  at  At- 
lantic City,  January  7-10  of  this  year,  when  over  seventeen 
hundred  men  and  women  met  the  challenge  of  the  surveys 
of  the  world,  which  indicated  a  crisis  in  almost  every 
country.  At  this  conference  the  date  of  the  financial  cam- 
paign was  set  definitely  for  April  25-May  2,  and  the  budget, 
although  large,  was  adopted,  because  the  task  could  not 
otherwise  be  acconii)lislu'(l. 


ChapUr  3. 

The  Purpose  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

The  threefold  purpose  of  the  Movement,  as  officially 
defined  by  the  Cleveland  Inter-board  Conference,  is: 

I.  To  undertake  a  scientific  survey  of  the  world's 
needs  from  the  standpoint  of  the  responsibility  of  evan- 
gelical Christianity.  (No  one  denomination,  not  even  the 
largest,  could  have  made  the  extensive,  all-inclusive, 
world-wide,  yet  detailed  surveys  that  have  been  made  by 
the   Inter-church  World   Movement.) 

II.  To  project  a  co-operative  community  and  world 
program  to  meet  the  needs  arising  from  the  survey.  (No 
one  denomination,  again  not  even  the  largest,  could  under- 
take a  world  program  such  as  these  surveys  make  im- 
perative.) 

III.  To  discover  and  develop  the  resources  of  life, 
money,  and  prayer  required  by  the  program  fixed.  (There 
are  resources  of  life — in  state  schools  and  undenomina- 
tional universities — that  cannot  be  reached  by  denomina- 
tional leaders;  there  are  resources  of  money  held  by  men 
and  women  who  are  not  formal  church  members  but  sym- 
pathetic towards  the  Christianizing  of  the  world  that 
can  be  reached  only  b}^  the  formulation  and  execution 
of  a  gigantic  program  such  as  can  be  proposed  only  by 
a  united  church  effort.) 

The  Purpose  is  Not 

I.  To  bring  about  organic  church  union.  (In  proof  of 
this,  observe  these  two  public  declarations:  "Interchurch 
World  Movement  is  in  no  way  connected  with  any  move- 
ment for  organic  union.  Individual  members  doubtless 
have  their  own  opinions  which  may  be  favorable  or  un- 
favorable, but  the  Movement  from  the  beginning  has  ex- 
pressed its  conviction  that  all  matters  relating  to  organic 
union  should  be  referred  to  other  bodies  which  are  giving 
their  specific  attention  to  the  matter."  "The  Movement 
does  not  deal  with  matters  of  organic  union,  but  only  with 
co-operative  missionary  and  benevolent  activities.") 

II.  To  swallow  the  weaker  denominations.  (Rather  is 
its  purpose  to  help  each  denomination  according  to  its 
need,  to  strengthen  the  denomination  in  the  attaining  to 
its  goals.) 

III.  To  disturb  the  autonomy  of  any  denomination  or 
board.  (The  Interchurch  World  Movement  accepts  the 
goals  for  program  and  finances  which  have  been  adopted 
by  the  individual  denominations;  the  adding  of  all  these 
goals  makes  the  goals  of  the  Movement.) 

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IV.  To  direct  the  policy  of  any  MUeion  Bonrd.  (The 
undertaking  of  program*,  the  method  of  raising  money. 
the  expending  of  this  money,  the  carrying  out  of  programs 
are  all  in  the  hands  of  the  denominational  boards.) 

V.  To  administer  money,  except  for  its  own  proper  ad- 
ministrative expenses.  (The  money  raised  in  each  de- 
nomination during  the  simultaneous  campaign  will  go 
through  the  hands  of  the  denominational  treasurer  to  the 
boards  of  that  denomination  and  will  not  be  touched  by 
the  Movement.  Only  undesignated  gifts  of  non-church 
members  will  be  handled  by  the  Movement  treasurer.) 


PART  TWO. 
THE  UNITED  ENLISTMENT  MOVEMENT. 


Chapter  4. 

The  Origin  of  the  United  Enlistment  Movement. 

It  was  the  General  Conference  of  1917  that  ordered  the 
Four-Year  Program  which  resulted  in  the  United  Enlist- 
ment Movement.  The  problems  ahead  of  the  denomina- 
tion seemed  too  gigantic  to  thrust  upon  the  various  church 
departments  for  individual  solution;  only  by  "concerted 
action  on  the  part  of  all  departments  and  every  member  of 
the  denomination  could  the  desired  goals  be  reached.  The 
General  Conference,  therefore,  elected  a  Board  of  Admin- 
istration which  should  be  the  highest  source  of  authority 
in  the  interim  of  General  Conference  and  whose  duty  it 
was  to  cause  such  surveys  and  investigations  to  be  made 
as  should  indicate  clearly  the  task  ahead,  and  means  for 
the  actual  accomplishment  of  this  task.  Thus  the  General 
Conference  caught  the  vision  of  the  times  and  passed  it 
on  to  the  Church. 


Chapter  5- 
History  of  the  United  Enlistment  Movement. 

The  Board  of  Administration,  as  elected  by  the  General 
Conference,  consisted  of  the  bishops,  a  number  of  confer- 
ence superintendents,  and  several  prominent  laymen,  and 
represented  all  geographical  divisions  of  our  Church.  After 
studying  their  "job"  they  reached  this  conclusion: 

1.  "That  we  should  inaugurate  a  united  movement  to 
fully  realize  the  goals  of  the  quadrennium  and  to  meet  the 
demands  upon  onr  Church  because  of  war  conditions. 


2.  "That  we  •hould  make  a  thorough  iurrey  of  the 
needs  of  America  and  foreign  fields." 

To  accompliih  this  they  elected  an  executive  iecrctary, 
Dr.  S.  S.  Hough,  and  appointed  a  commiition,  compoted 
of  the  Executive  Committee  of  thia  Board,  the  executive 
heads  of  the  departments,  and  editort-in-chief  of  our  liter- 
ature, who  were  responsible  for  the  working  out  of  thii 
plan  and  program  and  its  effective  promotion  under  the 
general  direction  of  this  Board.  In  turn  the  commission 
appointed  a  smaller  group,  all  residents  of  Dayton,  known 
as  the  Campaign  Committee,  to  work  over  the  details. 
These  three  bodies,  each  working  within  its  prescribed 
limits,  have  been  pushing  forward  the  Four-Year  Program 
by  launching  one  appeal  after  another.  First  there  came 
the  appeal  for  Intercessors;  then  an  appeal  for  Life  Work 
Recruits  (our  own  Church  needs  right  now  500  addi- 
tional trained,  spiritual  leaders)  ;  then  the  appeal  for  Chris- 
tian Stewardship;  and  finally,  for  the  year  1919,  the 
Thanksgiving  cash  offering.  For  various  reasons  the  total 
report  of  these  efforts  has  not  yet  been  made.  The  report 
of  the  two-thirds  of  the  churches  that  have  sent  in  their 
reports  shows  the  totals  for  these  appeals  to  be  as  follows: 
Intercessors,  37,820;  Life  Work  Recruits,  1,191;  Tithing 
Stewards,  13,247;  Cash  Offering,  $92,264.81. 

With  the  beginning  of  this  year  some  of  these  appeals 
are  being  renewed,  and  with  the  appeals  are  being  put 
forth  campaigns  of  Education  and  Evangelism.  The  past 
efforts  have  been  successful;  the  future  is  in  our  hands— 
for  we  know  God  will  bless;  failure  can  come  only  if  you 
fail,  if  I  fail. 


Chapter  6. 
The  Purpose  of  the  United  Enlistment  Movement. 

The  purpose  of  the  United  Enlistment  Movement  is  that 
our  Church  shall  fulfill  its  responsibility  in  the  extension 
of  the  kingdom  of  God.  To  accomplish  this  the  Church 
needs: 

I.  A  deepened  spiritual  life. 

II.  Greater  power  in  evangelism. 

III.  The  acceptance  and  fulfillment  of  our  obligations 
in  home  and  non-Christian  lands. 

IV.  Increased  Sunday  schools  and  Christian  Endeavor 
societies. 

V.  A  greater  number  of  church  buildings,  adequately 
equipped  for  the  larger  program  in  rural  and  city  Ufa. 


VI.  An    adequately    supported    ministry,    that    a 
ciently  qualified  leadership  may  be  provided- 

VII.  -  A  well-informed,  unselfish  membership. 


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Chapter  7. 
Organization  and  Personnel- 


General  Board  of  Administration. 

Bishop  G.  M.  Mathews,  Chairman. 
Dr.  J.  S.  Fulton,  Recording  Secretary- 
S.  S-  Hough,  Executive  Secretary. 


Bishop  H.  H.  Fout- 
Bishop  W.  H.  Washinger. 
Bishop  N.  Castle. 
Bishop  W.  M.  W^eekley. 
Dr.  A.  R.  Clippinger- 
Dr.  V.  W.  Overton. 
Dr.  W.  F.  Gruver. 
Rev.  C  E.  Heisel. 
Judge  V^.  N.  McFaul. 
Atty.  F.  p.  Geib. 
Atty.  Jay  M.  Cogan. 
Prof.  J.  H.  Ruebush- 
Mr.  J.  R.  Englc. 


Bishop  W.  M.  Bell. 
Bishop  C.  J.  Kephart. 
Bishop  A.  T.  Howard. 
Dr.  J.  E.  Shannon. 
Dr.  J.  T.  Foster. 
Rev.  Geo.  E.  McDonald. 
Atty.  M.  H.  W^hitcraft. 
Atty.  R.  H.  Bennett. 
Pres.  I.  J.  Good. 
Prof.  Mark  Keppel. 
Dr.  R.  A-  Hitt. 
Dr.  M.  R.  Ballinger. 


United  Enlistment  Movement  Commission. 


Dr.  P.  M 
Dr.  O.  T. 

Bishop  G.  M.  Mathews. 

Bishop  A.  T.  Howard. 

Bishop  C.  J.  Kephart. 

Dr.  A.  R.  Clippinger. 

Dr.  A.  C.  Siddall. 

Dr.  W.  E.  Schell. 

Dr.  J.  E.  Fout. 

Dr.  H.  F.  Shupe. 

Pres.  I.  J.  Good. 


Camp,  Chairman. 
Deever,  Secretary. 

Dr.  J.  S.  Fulton. 

Dr.  J.  E.  Shannon. 

Dr.  C-  W.  Brewbaker. 

Dr.  V^.  R.  Funk. 

Dr.  W.  O.  Fries. 

Dr.  J.  M.  Phillippi. 

Atty.  Jay  M.  Cogan. 

Mr.  L.  O.  Miller. 


Campaign  Committee. 

Dr.  A.  C.  Siddall,  Chairman. 

Dr.  S.  S.  Hough,  Secretary. 
Prof.  J.  B.  Showers.  Dr.  H.  F.  Shupe. 

Dr.  A.  R.  Clippinger.  Col.  H.  E.  Myers. 


General  Campaign  Cabinet, 
Director  General,  Dr.  S.  S.  Hough- 
Advisory  Director   General,   Mr.    Olof   Gates. 
Initial  Gifts  Chairman,  Dr.  W.  E.  Schell. 
Publicity  Chairman,  Dr.  H.  F.  Shupe. 
Speakers'  Chairman,  Prof.  J.  B.  Shower.'^- 
Lists'  Chairman,  Mr.  H.  C.  Cridland. 
Quota  and  Statistics  Chairman,  Prof.  W.  A.  \\  eher- 
Campaign  Treasurer,  Mr.  L.  O.  Miller. 
Five  Areal  Directors,  the  Bishops. 
Five  Associate  Areal  Directors 

Areal   Financial  Campaign   Cabinet. 
Areal  Director.  Bishop. 
Associate  Areal  Director,  Layman. 
Advisory  Areal  Director,   Employed   Man. 
Conference    Directors,    Conference    Superintendents    of 
the  Area. 

Associate  Conference  Directors.  Laymen. 

Conference   Financial   Campaign   Cabinet. 
Conference  Director.  Conference  Superintendent. 
Associate  Conference  Directors,  Laymen. 
District  Directors,  District  Leaders. 
Associate  Directors,  Laymen. 

District  Conference  Campaign  Cabinet. 
District  Director,  the  District  Leader. 
Associate  District  Directors,  Laymen. 
Church  Directors,  Pastors. 
Associate  Church  Directors.  Laymen. 

Local  Church  Financial  Cabinet- 
Church  Director,  the  Pastor. 
Associate  Church  Director.  Leading  Layman. 
Preliminary  Gifts  Chairman. 
Publicity  Chairman. 
Speakers'  Chairman. 
Lists'  Chairman. 
Church  Treasurer. 


Chapter  8. 
The  Surveys. 

One  of  the  outstanding  features  of  the  United  Enlist- 
ment Movement  is  its  surveys.  Never  in  the  history  of 
the  church  has  there  been  such  thorough  investigation  of 
every  feature  of  our  denominational  work.     These  surveys 


will  be  studied  again  and  again  and  will  doubtless  furnish 
increasing  material  for  the  building  of  denominational 
programs.  The  United  Enlistment  Budget  was  built  upon 
the  data  gathered  by  these  surveys.  In  our  approaching 
financial  campaign  the  people  are  not  being  asked  to  con- 
tribute to  budgets  constructed  in  office  rooms  out  of 
mere  estimates-  This  budget  is  the  expression  of  actual 
need  as  expressed  by  our  pastors  and  people  out  on  the 
field. 

Surveys  have  been  taken  in  the  following  departments: 

1.  The  Foreign  Survey. 

2.  The  Home  Mission  Survey. 

3.  The  Church  Erection  Survey. 

4.  An  Educational  Survey,  including, 

(a)  Colleges. 

(b)  The   Seminary. 

5.  Sunday-school  and  Evangelistic  Survey. 

6.  Ministerial  Survey. 

7.  Life  Work  Survey. 

The  results  of  these  various  surveys  will  be  found  in 
the  following  pages  and  every  person  who  speaks  in  the 
intetest  of  the  United  Enlistment  Movement  should  famil- 
iarize himself  with  these  surveys  and  all  the  data  gathered. 


PART  THREE 


Chapter  9. 
Foreign  Missions — $694,000. 

Africa    , $134,558 

Porto  Rico  70,676 

China  212,786 

Japan  168,962 

Philippines 106,018 

Present  Staff.  New  Staff. 

Missionaries.  Missionaries  Needed. 

American     Native                          American  Native 

Africa               32               80           Africa             21  67 

Porto  Rico        7                15           Porto  Rico      5  19 

Japan                   7               25           Japan                9  39 

China                  19              41           China              19  44 

Philippines         8               38           Philippines     12  45 

Total             73             199                                 66  214 
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TALKING  POINTS. 
Gleaned  from  Interchurch  Movement. 


Latin-America  to  the  Fore. 

Prompted  by  the  commercial  appeal,  high  school  and 
college  students  in  large  numbers  have  taken  up  the  study 
of  Spanish.  What  of  the  spiritual  appeal  which  at  the 
recent  Des  Moines  convention  drev^  2,000  out  of  7,000 
student  delegates  to  the  Latin-American   rally? 

Business  Awakes  to  Latin-America. 

Europe  used  to  have  the  bulk  of  Latin-America's  trade, 
but  the  United  States  now  recognizes  this  as  our  logical 
market-  There  are  twenty-three  Xorth  American  banks 
in  South  America  where  five  years  ago  there  was  none. 
Steamship  service  is  steadily  improving. 

Church   Must  Awake,   Too. 

What  right  have  we  to  grow  rich  out  of  trade  with  the 
nations  of  Latin-America  if  we  do  not  send  missionaries 
to  meet  the  intellectual,  physical,  and  spiritual  needs  of 
the  people?  Latin-America  needs  the  educator,  the  phy- 
sician, and  the  missionary  with  the  simple  gospel  story  as 
much  as  it  needs  our  trade.  All  the  twenty  nations  of 
Latin-America  spend  less  on  education  than  New  York 
alone. 

Islam   Never   Sleeps. 

When  Turkey  sided  with  Germany  and  the  Moslem 
world  failed  to  rise  to  the  call  of  a  "holy  war,"  Islam  re- 
ceived a  tremendous  set-back.  But  Islam  never  sleeps 
on  its  job.  Since  the  end  of  the  war  it  has  greatly  in- 
creased the  number  of  its  missionaries. 

Don't  Blame  the  Missionary. 
Protestant  missionaries  are  not  to  blame  if  in  a  century 
and  one-half  they  have  not  evangelized,  in  the  teeth  of 
India's  castes,  illiteracy,  polytheism,  pantheism,  polygamy, 
and  fatalism,  a  race  that  numbers  one-fifth  of  the  entire 
human  race.  Just  1,630  Protestant  ordained  missionaries 
are  attacking  this  stupendous  problem.  American  church- 
es, with  115.000  pastors,  are  experiencing  a  great  shortage 
of  leaders,  yet,  on  the  basis  of  population,  we  have  210 
ordained   ministers   to   India's  one- 

Hardly  Making  a  Dent. 

Christianity  has  barely  touched  the  edges  of  India's 
336,000,000,  and  is  not  beginning  to  overtake  the  natural 
increase   in   population,  an   increase   in   the   last   decade   of 


over  ^,000,000.  After  four  centuries  of  Roman  Catholic 
and  two  centuries  of  Protestant  missions  in  India,  the 
total  Christian  population  is  about  four  millions. 

What  is  Adequate  Occupation? 
There  are  at  least  125,000,000  people  in  the  scarcely 
known  portions  of  the  Asiatic  republic,  while  in  those 
areas  which  are  familiar  to  us  there. live  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands of  Chinese  men  and  women  who  know  nothing  of 
Christ.  What  is  considered  one  of  the  furthest  developed 
mission  areas  in  China  has  but  one  Christian  evangelist 
for  each  20,000  inhabitants!  In  another  of  the  "developed" 
fields,  which  contains  210,000  square  miles  in  which  mis- 
sionary work  has  been  in  progress  for  sixty  years,  there 
are  just   three   Chinese  evangelists  at  work. 

Decrease  of  Medical  Work  in  China. 
When  the  world  war  began  there  were  but  50O  medical 
missionaries  in  all  of  China.  To-day  there  are  only  350. 
Authorities  consider  it  no  exaggeration  to  say  that  out  of 
every  100  men  and  women  in  China  who  become  ill,  98 
go  through  their  suffering  without  the  aid  of  medical  sci- 
ence or  the  ministrations  of  a  doctor  or  nurse. 

The  Importance  of  the  Orient. 
"The  countries  of  the  East  are  unorganized,  and  ac- 
cording to  our  Western  ideas,  very  slow  and  unprogres- 
sive,"  says  Thomas  Tiplady.  "Nevertheless,  all  the  great 
religions  of  the  world  have  come  from  the  East.  Chris- 
tianity, the  greatest  of  all,  came  from  the  Orient.  And  we 
shall  never  see  full-orbed  Christianity  until  the  East  be- 
comes Christian.  They  have  few  millionaires,  but  they 
have  many  mystics.  We  are  taking  time  to  grow  rich, 
but  not  time  to  grow  holy." 


2.    Based  on  Denominational  Surveys. 


Africa. 

Three  great  forces  are  contending  for  supremacy  in 
Africa — Commercialism,  Mohammedanism,  and  Chris- 
tianity. 

Africa  is  fabulously  rich  in  her  wonderful  but  undevel- 
oped fields  of  coal,  iron,  tin,  gold,  diamonds,  timber,  oil, 
rubber,  rice,  and  corn.  Europeans  are  pouring  in  for 
purely  commercial  purposes. 

Every  third  person  is  a  Mohammedan  and  every  Mo- 
hammedan a  missionary. 

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Over  a  million  men  fram  Africa,  helped  win  the  war  in 
Europe. 

To  minister  to  the  160,000,000  people  of  the  Dark  Con- 
tinent there  are  but  123  missionary  doctors  with  but  313 
dispensaries  and  hospitals.  The  United  Brethren  Church 
has  but  four  dispensaries  and  sub-dispensaries  for  the 
5,000  towns  for  which  she  is  responsible,  with  no  phy- 
sician and  but  three  trained  nurses. 

The  United'Enlistment  program  calls  for  a  hospital,  two 
doctors  and  three  additional  nurses  for  this  field. 

To  meet  the  needs  of  5,000  towns  in  United  Brethren 
territory  we  have  29  organized  churches  and  560  preach- 
ing places,  31  Sunday  Schools  and  41  day  and  boarding 
schools.  Who  is  to  blame  for  this  large  unoccupied 
territory?  One  of  our  native  pastors  in  pleading  for  one 
of  these  towns  writes  to  a  missionary:  "I  am  absolutely 
sure  that  if  you  were  to  reach  Mongelle  today  your  heart 
would  break  and  you  would  at  once  send  a  teacher  to 
proclaim  Christ.  Do  not  delay.  Send  now  a  teacher  be- 
fore it  is  too  late.    They  beg  you  to  send  them  help,"  etc. 

The  immediate  task  of  the  United  Brethren  Church  is 
to  fully  occupy  our  territory  with  its  5,000  towns.  At 
present  we  have  but  32  missionaries  on  the  field  with  80 
African  workers-  The  surveys  call  for  21  additional  mis- 
sionaries during  the  next  five  years  and  67  African  work- 
ers.    These  latter  must  be  trained  in  our  schools. 

The  United  Enlistment  Canvass  must  provide  for  the 
support  of  these  workers,  for  the  building  of  12  schools 
and  dormitories,  26  chapels  and  churches,  33  parsonages 
and  missionary  homes,  a  hospital  and  an  industrial 
building. 

China. 

One-fourth  of  the  human  race  lives  in  China.  She 
doubles  her  population  every  80  years.  By  the  year  2000 
she  will  have  nearly  a  billion  population.  Her  population 
today  equals  the  combined  population  of  Great  Britain, 
France,  Italy,  Russia,  Germany,  Austria,  Bulgaria,  Greece, 
Denmark,    Holland,   Norway  and   Sweden. 

She  is  a  rich  country  but  undeveloped.  Her  coal  de- 
posits are  sufficient  to  supply  the  whole  world  with  coal 
for  a  thousand  years. 

She  is  a  lover  of  learning.  Yet  only  five  men  in  a  hun- 
dred and  one  woman  in  a  thousand  can  read.  60.000,000 
children  of  school  age  have  no  schools.  Our  Church 
supports  10  elementary  and  3  grammar  schools.  The 
United  Enlistment  program  calls  for  buildings  for  the  two 


boy»  grammar  ichools.  Wc  also  co-operate  in  a  union 
high  school,  two  normal  schools,  and  a  theological  school 
for  the  training  of  workers. 

Ninety-nine  out  of  every  lOU  men  and  women  have  no 
access  to  a  doctor  or  hospital.  Yet  it  is  a  country  swept 
by  deadly  plagues  every  year.  Seventy  out  of  every  100 
babies  die  in  infancy  because  of  ignorant  motherhood. 

One  of  China's  statesmen  passing  through  America  to 
the  Peace  Conference  said:  "You  have  taken  away  from 
us  our  idols  and  temples  and  destroyed  our  faith  in  Budd- 
hism and  Confucianism.  Responsibility  rests  on  you  to 
give  us  a  positive  substitute  which  we  must  now  have  to 
avoid  chaos." 

China  is  developing  rapidly  and  needs  the  wise  guidance 
of  an  educated  Christian  leadership. 

Seven  missionaries  made  a  trip  through  the  interior  of 
China,  covering  twenty-five  days  of  travel  and  found  noth- 
ing done  to  evangelize  that  area. 

If  Ohio  had  as  many  churches  in  proportion  to  her  pop- 
ulation as  there  are  in  China  she  would  have  but  68  small 
chapels  for  the  State. 

In  America  there  is  one  doctor  to  712  people,  in  China 
one  to  400,000.  The  United  Brethren  Church  has  three 
doctors  in  China  and  one  hospital  and  on^  dispensary. 
The  United  Enlistment  program  calls  for  two  additional 
doctors  and  equipment  for  the  Ramsburg  Hospital  just 
completed  at  Siu  Lam,  and  a  new  dispensary  in  Canton- 

Our  present  staff  on  the  field — 19  missionaries  and  41 
Chinese  workers.  The  new  program  calls  for  19  new 
missionaries  and  44  new  Chinese  workers,  5  church  build- 
ings, 2  schools  and  9  homes  for  missionaries. 

No  more  missionaries  can  be  added  to  our  staff  until 
wc  provide  places  for  them  to  live. 

Japan. 

Japan  has  an  efficient  school  system — ^98  per  cent,  of 
her  children  arc  in  government  schools.  But  she  has  failed 
at  this  her  greatest  point  of  success,  for  90  per  cent,  of 
the  graduates  from  her  schools  have  drifted  from  Budd- 
hism and  Shintoism  and  come  out  with  absolutely  no  re- 
ligious faith  of  any  kind.  From  these  will  come  her  prime 
ministers,  itatcsmcn,  government  officials,  teachers  and 
their  leaders.    What  will  be  her  future? 

Japan  is  building  up  a  tremendous  industrial  system 
which  is  killing  thousands  of  women  who  are  forced  to 
work  ten  and  twelve  hours  a  day,  seven  days  a  week,  at 
ten  and  twclva  cents  a  day 

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Japan  ii  a  leader  in  all  A»ia.  Yet  only  150,000  of  her 
55,000,000  population  arc  Christians.  The  church  must 
increase  tremendously  her  present  force  of  workers  if 
Japan  and  the  Orient  are  to  be  dominated  by  Chris- 
tianity. 

The  United  Brethren  Church  is  established  in  5  citie« 
with  populations  from  500,000  to  over  2,000,000.  We  have 
19  organized  churches,  7  missionaries  and  25  Japanese 
workers- 

The  United  Enlistment  program  calls  for  9  new  mis- 
sionaries, 39  additional  native  pastors,  Bible  women  and 
teachers;  build  13  new  churches  and  3  missionary  resi- 
dences. 

The  Philippines  and  Porto  Rico. 

The  United  States  has  introduced  a  splendid  educational 
system  in  these  islands  but  prohibits  religious  instruction 
in  the  public  schools. 

The  Filipinos  are  preparing  for  self-government-  They 
need  Christianity  to  make  it  safe. 

Porto  Rico  is  as  some  one  has  said,  a  Christian  labora- 
tory. Plans  worked  out  there  can  be  employed  anywhere 
in  all  Latin  America.  Literature  prepared  there  can  be 
read  in  all  South  America.  Workers  trained  there  can 
serve  in  opening  other  Latin  American  fields. 

These  islands  are  eager  for  the  open  Bible,  denied  them 
under  Spanish  rule. 

The  Ifugao  tribe  of  the  Philippine  Islands,  wholly  un- 
touched by  any  civilization — a  tribe  of  head  hunters — was 
assigned  to  the  United  Brethren  Church  for  evangeliza- 
tion thirteen  years  ago.  It  is  open  and  waiting  for  work- 
ers. A  missionary  is  now  ready  to  go.  The  opening  of 
this  work  is  a  part  of  the  United  Enlistment  program. 

The  Island  of  Santo  Domingo  not  far  from  Porto 
Rico  has  been  promised  workers  for  years.  Under  the 
enlarged  program  before  our  Church,  this  island  of  re- 
ceptive and  eager  people  will  have  missionaries. 

We  have  9  missionaries  in  the  Philippines  and  38  FiJ' 
pino    workers    and    39    organized    churches. 


Chapter  10. 
Home  Missions— $380,000. 

1.  Special  City  Mission  Fund $188,000 

2.  Conference  Extension   Fund 140,000 

3.  Office,  Printing,  Traveling  and  Administrative 

Expense 28,000 

4.  Santa  Cruz,  New  Mexico,  Girls'  Dormitory 18,000 

5.  Furnishings   for  Same 4,000 

6.  Alcalde,  New  Mexico,  School  and  Teachers' 

Home 8.000 

7.  Furnishings  for  School  and  Teachers'  Home..        1,000 

8.  Velarde,  New  Mexico,  Repairs  and  Remodeling      2,000 


TALKING  POINTS 
1.    Gleaned  from  Interchurch  Movement. 


Why  City  Churches  Sell  Out. 

Unless  it  win  the  city,  the  church  loses  out.  Failing  to 
adapt  its  program  to  the  changed  population,  the  church 
has  been  steadily  losing  grip  on  the  city. 

I.  City  growth  a  modern  phenomenon. 

II.  Three  elements  in  American  city:  Rural  emigrants. 
European  immigrants,  city  born. 

III.  The  city  church,  still  rural  and  without  program 
for  immigrant  or  city  born,  must  reach  these  elements  or 
sell  out. 

Amazing  Growth  of  Cities. 

In  1910,  36  million  people,  or  38.8  per  cent,  of  the  na- 
tion's population,  lived  in  778  cities  of  8,000  and  over.  In 
1800,  there  were  but  six  cities  with  a  population  of  8,000 
and  over:  Philadelphia,  New  York,  Baltimore,  Boston. 
Charleston,  and  Salem,  with  a  combined  population  of 
about  200,000,  or  four  per  cent,  of  the  entire  population. 
In  1910  nearly  one-tenth  of  the  country's  population  lived 
in  three  cities:  New  York,  Chicago,  and  Philadelphia.  The 
majority  of  the  people  in  the  United  States  to-day  live  in 
cities  of  2,500  and  over. 

While  London  is  probably  2,000  years  old,  four-fifths  of 
its  growth  has  taken  place  during  the  last  century.  Paris 
is  more  than  four  times  as  large  as  it  was  in  1800,  and 
Pctrograd,  up  to  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  had  increased 
nearly  threefold  in  75  years. 

Negro  Statistics. 
The  Negro  po^nUtion   of  the  United   Sutes  is  about 
ten  mniion.    Of  this  totml,  about  forty  ftr  cent,  arc  ni€i5i- 


bcrs  of  Protestant  churches,  as  against  a  25  per  cent.  Prot- 
estant membership  of  the  rest  of  the  country's  millions. 
Negro  church  property  in  the  country  is  valued  at  ap- 
proximately $26,000,000.  Negro  subscriptions  to  war  work 
amounted  to  $225,000,000  and  Negroes  themselves  raised 
$1,700,000  for  their  own  educational  purposes.  The  amount 
spent  for  evangelical  churches  and  other  organizations  for 
Negro  evangelization  and  education  was  $989,611.06- 

Starving  the  Rural  Church. 

The  rural  church  has  been  socially  starved.  The  city 
church  has  failed  because  it  is  still  rural.  The  rural  church 
has  failed  because  it  has  not  kept  up  with  the  times  and 
country  life  changes.  Rural  populations  are  shifting  and 
becoming  constantly  more  complex.  Since  farm  land 
has  become  speculative,  the  homestead  is  fast  disappear- 
ing. Absentee  pastors,  poor  leadership,  inadequate  equip- 
ment and  program  have  caused  a  startling  decline  in  mem- 
bership and  influence  of  the  rural  church. 

Large  Flocks,  Few  Shepherds. 

In  a  large  western  State  there  are  two  counties  without 
any  pastor;  several  with  one,  and  one  county  with  10,000 
population  and  only  one  minister.  In  this  same  State 
there  are  ten  mountain  counties,  the  total  population  of 
which  is  50,000,  and  the  church  membership  of  which  is 
1,002 — that  is  approximately  two  per  cent. 

Who  Stands  for  It? 

One  town  in  a  western  State  with  4,000  population  has 
not  a  single  church.  A  nearby  town  of  1,600  has  fourteen 
Protestant  churches,  attendance  ranging  from  125  down  to 
five.  One  church  gets  $1,500  a  year  missionary  support. 
All  get  some  missionary  support.  One  has  been  promised 
$500  a  year  "if  it  is  needed  to  maintain  the  denomination 
in  the  town." 


2.    Based  on  Denominational  Survey. 


Christ's  Program. 
Home  Missions  is  Christ's  program  for  world  Christian- 
ization.    His  first  and  greatest  gift  was  to  his  own  people. 
He  gave  his  life  that  they  might  fulfill  the  Old  Testament 
plan  for  the  world. 

It  is  FundamentaL 
No  one  understood,  as  Christ  did,  the  Old  Testament 
declaration  that  "The  wickerf  shall  be  turned  into  hell  and 


all  the  nations  that  forget  God."  This  declaration  makes 
Home  Missions  fundamental  in  the  conservation  of  all 
national  life.  From  the  days  of  the  glory  of  Egypt  down 
to  the  present  time,  God's  declaration  has  been  fulfilled  in 
national  life  and  may  it  not  be  possible  that  in  the  present 
world  crisis,  God  is  hastening  the  coming  of  Christ's  king- 
dom by  overthrowing  nations  that  have  forgotten  God? 
May  America  be  spared  the  penalty. 

It  Builds  a  Bigger  Church. 
Since  the  Home  Missionary  Society  was  organized  as  a 
separate  society  in  1905,  three  hundred  and  thirty-six  mis- 
sions in  cities,  villages,  and  on  the  frontier  have  been 
aided.  This  is  about  as  many  fields  as  are  in  four  of  our 
largest  conferences  in  the  denomination. 

It  Enlarges  a  Denomination. 

During  the  past  year  there  were  128  missionaries  and 
teachers  on  the  list  of  Home  Missions.  One  hundred  and 
twelve  missions  received  support  from  the  board.  These 
missions  brought  into  the  Church  1,804  people.  If  the 
whole  Church  had  done  as  well  as  our  Home  Missions 
there  would  have  been  added  to  the  Church  last  year 
55,000  people,  instead  of  a  loss  of  3,221  as  the  Year  Book 
shows. 

It  is  a  Good  Investment. 

Five  hundred  dollars  was  given  by  a  layman  of  the 
Southeast  Ohio  Conference  several  years  ago  for  special 
work.  His  gift  made  it  possible  to  start  the  work  in 
New  Mexico.  We  now  have  five  charges,  also  three  mis- 
sion schools  for  Spanish-Amercian  boys  and  girls  with  a 
present  enrollment  of  164.  The  transforrqation  in  the 
lives  of  these  boys  and  girls  is  beyond  estimate.  They 
will  become  the  founders  of  Christian  homes  and  the  lead- 
ers in  the  life  of  their  respective  communities. 

How's  This  for  Big  Business? 
The  Home  Missionary  Society  appropriated  to  its  mis- 
sion fields  in  fourteen  years  $481,979.  and  during  the  same 
period  the  home  missions  paid  for  all  purposes,  $1,404,262, 
or  $3  for  $1. 

It  Strengthens  AU  Departments. 
Since  ll^S  our  home  missions  have  reported  over  40.000 
4cct;»fttot\b  to  tke  Church  This  increase  in  membershi]^ 
bus  affected  all  de^artmetitf  oi  our  church  work.  U  ha^ 
enlarsred  the  output  of  our  Fublishmg  Hotiae,  our  churc)^ 
}i»«riodicai»c    our   Swwday-ftchtKtl   a«d    Christiaa    EBdea^«f« 


sions,  Women's  Missionary  Association,  and  every  other 
department  of  the  Church.  It  has  added  thousands  of 
dollars  to  our  budget,  as  well  as  thousands  to  our  mem- 
bership, and  hundreds  to  colleges  and  Seminary. 

It  Conserves  Our  Membership. 

The  Home  Missionary  Society  has  founded  130  city  mis- 
sions in  fourteen  years.  No  estimate  can  be  made  of  the 
thousands  of  members  who  have  been  saved  to  the  denom- 
ination because  we,  as  a  church,  were  in  those  cities.  Owing 
to  the  fact  that  our  membership  is  about  seventy-five  per 
cent,  rural,  many  thousands  of  our  people  have  been  lost, 
not  only  to  our  denomination,  but  to  the  extension  of  our 
work  at  home  and  abroad.  The  present  policy  of  Home 
Missions  is  to  enter  cities  contiguous  to  territory  where  we 
are  already  operating,  as  fast  as  men  and  means  can  be 
secured. 

It  Will  Hold  Our  Place. 

If  we,  as  a  denomination,  wish  to  co-operate  with  the 
Interchurch  World  Movement,  it  will  be  necessary  for  us 
to  bring  our  standards  of  leadership  and  equipment  in  the 
Home  Mission  Department  up  to  the  standards  set  by 
the  Interchurch  Movement.  In  order  to  do  this  and  hold 
our  place  as  a  denomination,  it  will  mean  that  our  Church 
must  turn  more  money  into  the  development  of  our  de- 
nomination through  Home  Missions. 

It  Lengthens  Our  Stakes. 

The  Home  Mission  Board  takes  the  initiative  in  open- 
ing work  in  new  territory.  It  founded  the  work  in  Mon- 
tana. Our  society  stands  by  the  work  in  a  mission  con- 
ference until  it  grows  strong  enough  to  become  a  confer- 
ence. In  1913,  there  were  eight  organized  churches  in 
Montana,  now  26;  then  200  members,  now  900;  then  12 
Sunday  schools,  now  23,  with  an  enrollment  of  1,650;  then 
church  property  valued  at  $8,200,  now  $45,700,  also  eight 
Christian  Endeavor  societies  with  an  enrollment  of  over 
200.  When  this  mission  conference  takes  its  place  among 
the  older  conferences  of  our  Church,  let  it  be  remembered 
that  its  resources,  life,  and  energy  were  made  available  to 
the  denomination  through  Home  Mission  effort  and  sup- 
port. 

It  Is  a  Base  of  Supply. 

A  number  of  illustrations  can  be  given  of  Home  Mis- 
sions that  have  become  self-supporting  and  have  done  and 
are  doing  large  things  for  the  extension  of  the  kingdom. 
Here    is    a    typical    instance:    Buffalo,    New    York,    First 

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Church,  was  on  our  appropriation  list  for  thirteen  years 
when  it  became  self-supporting,  l-roin  this  church  have 
gone  out  seven  preachers.  It  has  started  three  city  mis- 
sions in  Buffalo,  which  are  now  receiving  support  from 
our  board.  It  supported  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hal  Smith  in 
Africa  for  several  years.  ;uul  is  now  suppcjrtlng  Mrs.  (Irace 
I'^vans. 


Chapter  11. 
Church  Erection— $400,000. 

1.  Xew   Church   Buildings — 127. 

2.  Remodeled  Church   lUiildings — 8. 

3.  Parsonages — 83. 


TALKING  POINTS. 

-    I.    Church  Erection  is  vital  to  the  growth  of  the  church. 

The  Church  Erection  Society  is  the  only  agency  the 
United  Brethren  has  for  aiding  young  and  struggling  con- 
gregations in  securing  for  themselves  a  church  home.  Un- 
less such  aid  can  come  to  such  congregations,  many  will 
perish.  Denominational  extension  can  be  carried  on  only 
to  a  very  limited  extent  without  the  help  of  Church  Erec- 
tion. 

II.  How  Church  Erection  aid  is  extended. 

The  Church  Erection  Society  extends  aid  to  congrega- 
tions in  two  ways:  1  by  purchasing  and  donating  lots  for 
a  location;  2  by  extending  loans  of  money  with  which 
to  build  a  church,  said  loans  to  be  without  interest  to  the 
young  congregation. 

III.  How  the  funds  are  used. 

The  funds  secured  in  the  United  Enlistment  financial 
campaign  will  be  permanent  funds.  This  money  is  loaned 
out  with  the  provision  that  it  shall  be  repaid  during  a 
period  of  five  years  or  such  period  as  may  be  agreed  upon, 
then  when  it  is  paid  back  it  is  loaned  out  to  another  church 
under  the  same  conditions,  and  thus  it  continues  forever 
on  its  ministry  of  blessing.  Loans  are  made  on  first  mort- 
gage or  equally  good  security.  '  A  gift  of  $5,000  will  help 
build  twenty  churches  in  twenty  years  and  will  do  $36,000 
w^orth  of  church  building  in  that  time.  That  means  that 
the  $5,000  gift  will  multiply  itself  more  than  seven  times 
in  the  short  period  of  twenty  years.  What  would  an  in- 
vestment of  $100.0CX)  do  for  God  and  the  church  in  the 
next  100  years? 

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IV.  Glorious  Spiritual  Results  of  Church  Erection. 

It  cannot  he  known  definitely,  but  it  is  estimated  ]>\ 
those  competent  to  judge  that  as  many  as  150,000  of  our 
Sunday-school  pupils  are  found  in  the  schools  worshipping 
in  churches  aided  by  Church  Erection.  By  the  same  stand- 
ards of  judgment  as  many  as  100,000  of  our  church  mem- 
bership are  in  churches  aided  by  Church  Erection.  Here 
is  how  it  works:  Recently  the  Church  Erection  Society 
went  into  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  and  purchased  a  lot  and 
then  proceeded  to  build  a  temporary  church  and  furnish 
it  with  pulpit,  pews,  piano,  etc.,  and  in  less  than  three 
months  there  was  a  church  membership  of  100  and  a  large, 
growing  Sunday  school.  There  were  107  in  Sunday  school 
the  very  first  Sunday.  At  about  the  same  time  a  good 
location  was  selected  at  Rockford  and  the  Church  Erection 
Society  bore  all  expenses  for  a  good  temporary  chapel 
and  furnishing  it  and  in  less  than  three  months  the  church 
membership  had  passed  the  100  mark  and  still  going. 
There  are  perhaps  100  opportunities  as  good  as  either  of 
these  now  waiting  the  United  Brethren  Church,  but  they 
cannot  be  entered  without  the  aid  of  Church  Erection. 

V.  Great  Financial  Returns  from  Church  Erection  In- 
vestments. 

The  iotal  valuation  of  our  churgh  houses  is  now 
$15,433,558  and  the  valuation  placed  on  the  churches  aided 
in  their  construction  by  Church  Erection  is  $4,631,600; 
that  is,  nearly  one-third  of  our  total  valuation  of  church 
houses  is  placed  on  the  buildings  aided  by  Church  Erec- 
tion. 

The  United  Brethren  Church  has  3,364  church  houses 
and  Church  Erection  aided  in  the  construction  of  640  of 
them;  that  means  that  one  church  out  of  every  five  in 
the  United  lirethren  Church  has  been  aided  by  Church 
Erection. 

The  Church  Erection  S.ociety  has  loaned  $791,573  during 
the  fifty  years  of  its  history.  These  loans  have  aided  in 
the  construction  of  640  church  houses  worth  $4,631,600. 
In  other  words  the  United  Brethren  Church  has  received 
back  Six  Dollars'  worth  of  property  for  every  dollar  it  has 
loaned. 

The  total  contributions  to  the  cause  of  Church  Erection 
aggregate  $300,000.  This  has  been  loaned  and  reloaned 
until  it  has  produced  loans  aggregating  $791,573,  and  se- 
cured church  property  valued  at  $4,631,600;  in  other  words 
the  United  Brethren  Church  has  received  back  $15  worth 
of  property  for  every  dollar  it  has  given  to  Church  Erec- 
tion.    It  would  l)e  hard  to  duplicate  these  investments. 

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VI.    Opportunities  for  Inviting  Investments. 

1.  A  Name  Fund  is  a  splendid  investment-  Under  this 
plan  the  Church  Erection  Society  will  receive  gifts  in 
amount  of  $5,000  and  more  and  such  funds  can  be  named 
after  some  loved  one  and  the  society  agrees  to  keep  a 
separate  account  of  such  funds  and  make  annual  reports 
of  the  same  to  the  board.  A  gift  of  $5,000  to  a  fund  of  this 
kind  will  do  endless  good. 

2.  Persons  who  may  not  be  able  to  name  a  special 
fund,  may  wish  to  make  a  gift  towards  the  erection  of  a 
humble  church  house  in  some  needy  section  of  our  fron- 
tier field.  A  gift  of  $1,000  or  $1,500  will  make  it  possible 
to  build  a  neat  chapel  in  some  such  place  and  this  church 
will  bear  such  name  as  the  donor  may  desire.  The  memory 
of  loved  ones  may  thus  be  perpetuated. 

3.  Our  Trinity  congregation  in  Detroit  which  has  a 
most  wonderful  opportunity  of  development  greatly  needs 
a  fine  church.  A  gift  of  $10,000  will  make  such  a  church 
possible  and  the  church  will  be  named  as  donor  desires. 

4.  We  have  unusual  opportunities  at  Billings  and  Great 
Falls,  Montana.  Help  is  greatly  needed.  Gifts  of  $10,000 
will  be  received  for  memorial  churches. 

5.  We  need  a  great  plant  at  Denver,  Colorado,  We 
must  have  it.  Who  will  give  $25,000  to  help  build  a  $75,000 
church  in  Denver  and  name  the  church? 

6.  Stockton,  California,  is  one  of  our  most  flourishing 
missions  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  They  need  right  now  a 
$60,000  new  building.  Twenty  thousand  dollars  will  name 
this  church. 


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Chapter  12. 
Sunday  School  and  Brotherhood— -$75,000. 

(General   Fund $17,5(X)  per  Year 

Centennial    Fund 20,000  per  Year 

Total    $37,500  per  Year 

or  $75,000  for  Two  Years. 

HOW  THE  MONEY  WILL  BE  USED. 

a.  Promotion    and    supervision    of    Religious    Education 
through  churches  by  general  workers. 

b.  Headquarters  expenses.  (Clerical  help,  postage,  etc.) 

c.  District  and  Conference   Promotion  Work. 

d.  Extension    Work.     (Founding  new   schools,   mission 
schools,  distributing  literature,  etc.) 

e.     Special  Promotion..Needs. 
(\)     Teacher  Training. 

(2)  Daily  Vacation    Bible  Schools. 

(3)  Week  Day  Instruction. 

(4)  Schools  of  Methods,  Summer  Assemblies,   Confer- 
ences, etc. 

(5)  Missionary  Education. 

(6)  Social  Service  Education. 

(7)  Sunday-school  Work  for  New  Americans. 

(8)  Promotion.    Printing,   Publicity,   and   Other   Needs. 

(9)  Brotherhood   Work. 


TALKING  POINTS. 
1.     Based  on  Survey. 


Deals  With  the  Whole  Life. 

It  deals  with  the  little  child,  is  concerned  for  the  youth 
and  interests  itself  in  the  adult-  It  looks  after  the  four- 
fold development  of  the  individual  on  the  basis  of  the 
teachings  of  Christ. 

Greatest  Agency  of  the  Church. 

1.  The  greatest  Religious  Education  agency.  2.  The 
greatest  Evangelizing  agency.  3.  The  greatest  Socializing 
agency.    4.  The  greatest  Training  agency. 

Foundation  of  Home  Missions. 

Our    Home    Mission    churches    begin    by    organizing    a 
Sunday  school.     The  Sunday-school   Board  furnishes   free 
literature   for  three  months  or  more  without  charge- 
Related  to  Our  Colleges. 

From  our  Sunday  schools  come  the  (.'hristian  young 
people  who  attend  our  colleges  in  preparation  for  religious 
and  other  lines  of  leadership. 

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Closely  Allied  to  the  Home. 

The  religious  work  of  the  Sunday  school  supplements 
the  instruction  received  in  the  home,  and  often  furnishes 
the  only  religious  instruction  and  training  that  the  child 
receives. 

Christian  Citizenship  Maker. 

Nearly  all  of  tlie  great  national  and  world  leaders  come 
from  the  Sunday  school,  and  our  Christian  leaders  in  civic 
righteousness   are   largel}^   its   product. 


2.     Gleaned  from  Interchurch  Movement. 

"To  educate  the  reason  without  educating  the  desire  is 
like  placing  a  repeating  rifle  in  the  hands  of  the  savage." 
— Herhcrt  Spencer. 

"Every  scholar  is  something  added  to  the  riches  of  the 
commonwealth." — John  Knox. 

"To-day  industrial  conditions  favor  the  college  man. 
Old  crudities  are  disappearing;  science  is  dethroning 
chance.  Business  is  conducted  on  so  vast  a  scale  that  the 
broadening  effects  of  higher  education  write  a  large  fig- 
ure."— Charles  M.  Schwab. 

"The  right  instruction  of  youth  is  something  in  which 
Christ  and  all  the  world  is  concerned." — Luther. 

"The  small  Christian  college  is  the  hope  of  America." 

"Character  is  essential  to  statesmanship,  and  these  col- 
leges are  vital  factors  in  the  development  of  sterling  char- 
acter."— James  J.  Hill. 

Our  Largest  Army. 

We  have  an  army  of  illiterates,  bigger  than  the  arhiy 
we  raised  for  the  Great'  War.  1^'ive  and  a  half  million 
l^eople  in  America  are  unable  to  read  or  write  the  English 
language.  Imagine  this  armj-  marching  past  the  White 
House,  two  abreast,  three  feet  apart,  at  a  rate  of  twenty- 
four  miles  a  day.  T'"or  two  solid  months  the  President 
would  have  to  stand  as  our  army  of  illiterates  marched 
by.  Of  such  an  army  no  nation  would  be  proud.  Illit- 
erac}^  has  sometimes  gone  unchallenged  in  an  autocracy. 
In  a  democracy  it  is  a  reproach  and  a  menace.  The 
selective  draft  uncovered  this  defect  in  our  national  life. 
The  Christian  Church  insists  there  should  be  a  system 
of  education  to  meet  the  needs  of  ever}^  child  and  every 
adult  citizen,  and  is  back  of  the  Smith-Towner  T^ill  which 
would  increase  the  b>deral  government's  oversight  of 
the  educational  system,  and  give  to  the  Secretary  of  Edu- 
cation  a   Cabinet  portfolio. 

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Religion  and  Schools. 

Religious  influence  was  an  important  factor  in  the  origin 
and  development  of  America's  institutions  of  higher  edu- 
cation. Even  to-day  a  majority  of  these  institutions  are 
related  to  or  affiliated  with  Protestant  churches.  The 
tax-supported  institutions  as  well  as  the  others  welcome 
the  survey  and  the  help  that  will  come  from  it-  State 
I'niversity  authorities  are  asking  the  churches  to  assist 
them  in  their  task  of  dealing  with  the  youth  of  the  land. 
The  Young  Idea  —  and  Promiscuous  Shooting. 

Germany  acted  on  the  words  of  Humboldt:  "Whatever 
you  would  put  into  the  state  you  must  put  into  the 
schools,"  and  the  world  was  rocked  by  the  effect  of  this 
persistent  instilling  of  a  certain  idea. 

Spiritualizing  Education. 

"If  the  public  schools  hadn't  been  teaching  ideals  of 
honor,  justice  and  liberty,  the  President  couldn't  have 
called  out  an  army.  For  there  is  no  social  solidarity 
without  a  common  attitude  of  mind. 

"Now    the    Interchurch    World    Movement    pro]>oses    to 
make    for    the   American    people    a   program    of   education 
that  shall  assure  to  every  child  that  receives  secular  edu- 
cation from  the  state,  the  spiritualizing  of  his  ideals." 
A  Contrast. 

For  secular  education  the  United  States  government  is 
spending  about  $28.00  a  year  per  pupil  in  the  elementary 
^and  high   schools. 

For    religious    education    the   Protestant    churches    are 
spending  on  the  same  pupil  less  than  48  cents  a  year. 
Saddest  Page. 

''The  saddest  page  in  the  Christian  church  is  the  neglect 
of  the  spiritual  culture  of  the  child  in  our  homes." 
One  Pencil  a  Year. 

Members   of    Protestant   churches   give   the   cost   of   one 
lead  pencil  as  their  per  capita  annual  contribution  to  Sun- 
day-school work  and  religious  education. 
Never  Heard  Grace  at  Table. 

Since  i^ublic  schools  give  no  definite  religious  instruc- 
tion, children  get  none  whatever  unless-  in  home  and  the 
church.  Both  home  and  church  have  fallen  down  on  their 
jobs.  Twenty  million  children  have  never  heard  grace  at 
table  or  family  prayers,  and  receive  no  formal  training  in 
religion  in  church  or  Sunday  School. 

Do  You  Know  That— 

There  arc  5(),000.0(X)  nominally  TVotestant  but  actu^illy 
unchurched   people   in   the   United   States. 

There  are  27.000,000  Protestant  boys  and  girls  not  affil- 

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iated    with    any    particular    Sunday    school,    as    compared 
with   16,000,000  who  do  not  attend  regularly. 

The  1,600,000  Jewish  children  in  the  United  States  re- 
ceive an  average  of  335  hours  of  religious  education  an- 
nually; the  8,000,000  Roman  Catholic  children  receive  200 
hours  of  religious  education  annually;  but  the  Protestant 
children  receive  an  average  of  only  24  hours  of  religious 
education  annually. 


OUR  EVANGELISTIC  PROGRAM. 

Goal — One-fifth  of  the  total  membership  reported  at  the 
last  annual  conference  added  to  the  Church,  or  70,000  new 
members. 

Preparation  and  Organization — Hold  cottage  prayer- 
meetings.  Make  complete  list  of  all  prospective  members. 
Divide  local  church  into  units  or  groups — lay  teams.  En- 
listment of  all  agencies  or  societies  of  the  church  as  a 
unit.  Aim  to  reach  every  person  and  social  group  in  the 
community.  Line  up  with  other  churches  in  the  com- 
munity where  united  campaign  is  thought  best.  Leave 
nothing  undone.     Expect  victory. 

METHODS   OF  EVANGELISM. 

1.  Prayer.  There  can  be  no  true  revival  unless  born 
of  prayer.  Pentecost  was  the  result  of  united  prayer, 
united  expectation  and  united  action.  If  every  true  United 
Brethren  will  make  out  his  prayer  list  and  pray  contin- 
ually, earnestly,  and  specifically  from  now  until  Easter, 
the  victory  is  won. 

2.  Personal  Evangelism.  Victory  depends  largely  upon 
personal  work.  Let  every  pastor,  church  official,  Ladies' 
Aid,  Women's  Missionary,  Otterbein  Guild,  Sunday  School, 
Christian  Endeavor,  Organized  Class,  and  Brotherhood 
worker  actually  approach  some  one  on  the  prospective 
list.  Take  time  and  pains  to  lead  some  one  to  a  definite 
decision  for  Christ.  This  approach  may  be  supplemented 
by  a  very  kind,  personal  letter. 

3.  Decision  Day  in  the  Sunday  School.  Here  parents 
and  teachers  have  a  wonderful  opportunity  to  help  gather 
the  results  of  the  past  year's  work  in  Bible  instruction. 
No  pastor  can  afford  to  allow  this  opportunity  to  pass  by. 

4.  The  Pastor's  Class  for  Young  People.  There  may 
be  only  a  few  young  people,  but  preparing  our  youth  for 
church  membership  is  a  glorious  privilege  and  should  never 
be  neglected-  Teaching  is  essential  and  is  following 
Christ's  command. 

5.  Special  Evangelistic  Services.  The  church  should 
set  apart  a  special  period  for  evangelistic  service. 

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Chapter  13. 
Christian  Endeavor— $16,000. 

1.  For  travel,  Board  meetings,  etc $  500.00 

2.  For  Convention  work    500-00 

3.  For  field  work   350.00 

4.  For  printing  and  supplies 1,000.00 

5.  For- postage,  telephone,  etc 500-00 

6.  For  buying    literature  300.00 

7.  For  promoting  Life   Service    400.00 

8.  For  promoting  Tithing  and  Quiet   Hour 4(X).00 

9-  For  salary  and  miscellaneous 2,500.00 

10.  For  clerical  help    1,500.00 

11.  For  office  rent   81-25 


CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  GOALS. 

1.  A  25  per  cent.  Net  Increase  in  Societies  and  Member- 
ship. 

2.  Students  in  Personal  Efficiency  in  Every  Society. 

3.  Seven  Thousand  New  Comrades  of  the  Quiet  Hour. 

4.  Five  Thousand  New  Tithers. 

5.  Five  Hundred  New  Life  Work  Recruits. 

Spiritual  Training  of  the  Future  Church. 

Some  facts  to  show  that  Christian  Endeavor  is  a  pay- 
ing investment  for  the  United  Brethren  Church. 

FACT  ONE:  The  Young  People's  Society  is  a  "Mem- 
bership Feeder"  of  the  church.  When  the  "membership 
feeders"  decline  the  membership  of  the  church  follows 
with  a  decline. 

This  is  what  has  taken  place  in  recent  years. 

For  a  church  to  continue  to  grow  requires  the  Chris- 
tian Endeavor  Society  or  some  other  equally  adequate 
organization  to  care  for  its  youth, 

FACT  TWO:  Christian  Endeavor  helps  discover  and 
train  church  leadership,  William  Shaw,  retiring  general 
secretary  of  the  United  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor, 
after  36  years  of  observation  says:  "Men  and  women 
who  rank  as  leaders  in  the  great  forward  movements  of 
the  churches  during  the  last  25  years  have  repeatedly  de- 
clared that  it  was  in  Christian  Endeavor  that  they  saw 
the  vision  and  received  the  discipline  that  prepared  them 
for  the  greater  tasks  of  later  years."  He  names  a  dozen 
men  of  national  reputation  who  are  in  the  above  class  — 
among  them  Daniel  Poling,  Fred  B.  Smith,  and  S.  Earl 
Taylor,  secretary  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

As  we  look  over  our  United  Brethren  list  of  conference 
superintendents  who  have  been  presidents  of  our  Confer- 

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ence  Christian  Endeavor  Unions  we  find  the  names  of 
A.  K.  Clippinger,  S.  C.  Enck,  AI.  K.  Ballinger,  R.  A.  Smith. 
S.  S.  Showers,  M.  L.  Rohy  and   F.  M.  Testerman. 

I'ACT  THREE:  A  church  not  equipped  with  Senior, 
Intermediate,  and  Junior  Christian  Endeavor  societies  is 
not  giving  adequate  religious  education  to  its  youth. 

The  Government  spends  $24.00  a  year  for  the  secular 
education  of  our  hoys  and  girls  in  the  grade  schools.  We 
spend  48  cents  a  year  for  the  religious  training  of  the  same 
hoys  and  girls. 

Most  Wonderful  Event  of  Her  Life. 

During  a  conversation  last  summer  a  young  lady  said 
to  Secretary  Deever,  "I  can  never  be  the  same  girl  again. 
This  is  the  most  wonderful  event  of  my  life." 

Each  summer  about  4,000  young  people  in  our  Church 
pass  through  this  same  experience  in  our  Young  People's 
Conventions.  With  more  funds  our  conventions  can  be 
made  to  reach  8,000  voung  people  each  year  instead  of 
4,000. 

Christian  Endeavor  Enlists  and  Develops  Tithers. 

The  United  Enlistment  Movement  reports  13,247  tithers. 
At  the  Christian  Endeavor  conventions  last  summer  4,760 
tithers  were  reported  —  before  the  Enlistment  Move- 
ment's campaign  for  tithers  began.  It  is  a  safe  assertion 
that  there  are  1,863  new  Endeavor  tithers  since  the  con- 
ventions. This  means  that  fully  one-half  of  the  tithers  of 
the  Church  are  Endeavorers.  This  is  a  strong  testimony 
in  behalf  of  the  essential  usefulness  of  Christian  En- 
deavor, 

Christian  Endeavor  Enlists   Life  Work  Recruits. 

The  Young  People's  Department  has  led  out  in  the  glo- 
rious work  of  challenging  our  young  people  to  fully  sur- 
render to  the  will  of  God  for  their  life  work.  Our  colleges 
have  the  largest  number  of  students  preparing  for  the 
ministry,  missions,  etc.,  that  they  have  ever  had.  But  we 
will -need  many  more  than  are  now  in  sight  to  fill  our 
pulpits  and  do  our  missionary  w^ork.  A  hundred  vacant 
pulpits  in  the  Church  this  moment.  Do  you  wish  to  sup- 
port this  important  work?  You  can  find  no  better  in- 
vestment. 


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Chapter  14. 
Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary — $325,000. 

1.  Scholai-bhips— $/5,0(K). 

2.  Buildings  and  endowments— $250,000. 

The  Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary,  the  one  school 
for  the  theological  training  of  ministers  in  the  United 
Brethren  Church,  had  its  beginning  in  an  action  of  the 
(ieneral  Conference  at  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  May,  1869, 
when  the  following  resolution  was  adopted: 

"Resolved,  That  the  Board  of  Education  be  instructed 
to  devise  and  adopt  a  plan  for  the  founding  of  a  biblical 
institute  to  be  under  the  control  of  the  General  Confer- 
ence; and  said  Board  is  hereby  instructed  and  empow- 
ered to  take  measures  to  raise  funds  and  locate  said  in- 
stitution, and  to*  proceed  with  its  establishment  as  soon 
as   practicable." 

On  October  11,  1871,  in  the  Summit  Street  United 
Brethren  Church,  Dayton,  Ohio,  the  Seminary  opened  its 
doors  to  admit  the  first  class  which  numbered  eleven  stu- 
dents, eight  of  whom  were  graduated  three  years  later. 
With  the  exception  of  one  year  (1876)  a  class  has  been 
graduated  each  year  until  the  present.  The  total  number 
of  graduates  from  1874  to  1919  is  533.  Fully  as  many  more 
have  been  in  attendance  for  partial  courses  and  have  gone 
out  in  the  work  of  the  Church  to  perpetuate  the  teach- 
ings and  the  spirit  of  this  school  of  prophets. 

Statistical  Statement. 

In  the  field  of  religious  activity  428  graduates  have  en- 
tered the  following  lines  of  work: 

Ministry    313 

Evangelism 4 

1 1  ome  Missions     20 

Teachers  in  Home  Missions  Schools 4 

l'\)reign  Missions   22 

Teachers  in  Foreign  Mission  Schools 14 

Professors  in  Theological  Seminaries 5 

Professors  in  Religious  Subjects  in  College 1 

Y.  M.  C.  A.  Work 1 

Religious   Journalism    4 

Denominational  Administration    7 

Others    33 

Total.' 428 

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In  the  field  of  Education  ten  graduates  have  entered  the 
following  lines  of  activity: 

College   Presidents    4 

College  or  University  Teachers 5 

Other  Teachers    1 

Total 10 

Of  the  remaining  number,  twelve  entered  upon  other 
professions,  twenty-one  are  unemployed  or  their  occupa- 
tion is  unknown,  and  sixty-two  have  died. 

Parents  the  Biggest  Stumbling  Block. 
Half  of  our  missionaries  had  to  overcome  parental 
opposition.  The  ambitions  of  parents  for  their  children 
run  along  the  lines  of  financial  or  some  sort  of  material 
success.  In  the  case  of  missionary  work  the  thought  of 
years  of  separation  bulks  large.  Should  not  a  parent  be 
willing  to  co-operate  in  discovering  God's  plan  for  his 
child's  life?     To  miss  this  plan  is  life's  greatest  tragedy. 

One-Half. 

Thousands  who  gave  themselves  without  stint  during 
the  war  are  now  indulging  in  selfish  ease,  but  with  half 
the  world  sending  forth  a  Macedonian  call,  this  is  no  time 
to  sit  in  the  easy  chair. 

One-half  the  world  has  no  Teachers. 

One-half  the  world  has  no  Doctors. 

One-half  the  world  has  no  Bible. 

One-half  the  world  has  no  Christ. 

The  church  is  short  about  5,000  missionaries  in  the  for- 
eign field.  Interchurch  leaders  estimate  that  100,000  new 
paid  religious  workers  will  be  needed  in  the  next  few 
years. 

One  Doctor  to  3,000,000. 

In  one  section  in  Africa  there  is  one  doctor  for  3,000,- 
000  persons. 

Christ's  Law  of  Burdens. 

"Bear  ye  one  another's  burdens,  and  so  fulfil  the  law 
of  Christ." 

There  are  three  possible  attitudes  to  take  toward  the 
world's  burdens.  The  old  order  was  based  on  the  prin- 
ciple of  getting  others  to  bear  your  burden.  This  was 
the  principle  of  Monarchy  —  society  a  pyramid;  the  King 
on  top,  bearing  down  on  all  the  rest,  all  the  rest  support- 
ing him,  and  every  one  wishing  he  were  king  and  so  be 
supported  by  the  rest.  The  second  attitude  is  that  of 
indifference  —  every  man  bearing  his  own  burden  and 
refusing  to  interest  himself  with  the  burden  of  another. 
The  third  attitude,   Christ's  way  —  every    man    trying    to 

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lift   the  burden   from   others.     This   is   the   law   of   Christ, 
which  each  one  of  us  is  to  help  fulfill. 

When  Decisions  Are  Made. 

Out   of   894   candidates    for    the   ministry,    the   Southern 
Presbyterian  Church  found: 

55  heard  the  call  under  10  years; 

55  heard  the  call  between   11   and   15; 

477  heard  the  call  between  16  and  20; 

228  heard  the  call  between  21   and  25; 

44  heard  the  call  between  26  and  30; 

21   heard  the  call  between  31   and  35; 

6  heard  the  call  between  36  and  40; 

5  heard  the  call  between  41  and  45; 

1   heard  the  call  between  46  and  50. 

Farms  Furnish  Most  Ministers,  per  Cent. 

Homes  of  farmers  furnish    48 

}Tomes  of  ministers    furnish    14 

Homes  of  merchants   furnish    11 

1  lomes  of  laborers   furnish    4 

Homes  of  salesmen  furnish     3 

Homes  of  carpenters   furnish    3 

Homes  of  clerical    employees    furnish 3 

Homes  of  physicians   furnish 3 

Homes  of  lawyers  furnish   2 

T^omes  of  professors  furnish    , 1 

Homes  of  bankers  furnish  1 

Homes  of  other  professions   furnish 7 

(From  a  12-year  study.) 

City  Church  Doesn't  Breed  Ministers. 

From  investigations  of  917  candidates  for  the  n;inistry, 
it  appears  that — 

Country  churches  supplied    414 

Small  town  supplied   329 

City  supplied   1 74 

Chapter  15 
Colleges— $891,000. 

The   Board  of  Education $  91.000 

Otterbein   College     200.000 

Lebanon  Valley  College   .^ 200.000 

Indiana  Central  University    120,000 

Kansas  City  University    100,000 

York  College    : 100,000 

Philomath   College    40,000 

Shenandoah   Collegiate   Institute     40,000 

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Talking  Points  for  the  Board  of  Education. 

The  Board  of  Education  is  one  of  the  big  boards  of  the 
Church,  its  objectives  being — 

1.  To  create  a  denomination-wide  interest  in  Christian 
Education  and  our  own  Church  schools. 

2.  To  strengthen  our  institutions  of  learning  by  secur- 
ing for  them  better  equipment  and  more  adequate  endow- 
ment. 

3.  To  enlist  larger  numbers  of  our  young  people  for 
training  for  Christian  service  and  especially  for  the  gos- 
pel ministry. 

The  bulk  of  the  money  granted  to  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation, $75,000,  is  for  a  collegiate  scholarship  fund.  When 
it  is  all  raised  and  paid  in,  it  will  make  it  possible  to  give 
$100  a  year  to  forty-five ,  of  the  most  needy  and  most 
promising  ministerial  and  missionary  students  in  our  col- 
leges. Thus  many  a  young  minister  will  find  it  possible 
to  complete  his  collegiate  course  of  study,  who  without 
such  help  would  be  unable  to  attend  college  at  all,  or  at 
most  to  take  only  a  part  of  the  course. 

'The  building  up  of  the  Church  depends  upon  the  build- 
ers. Any  thoughtful  person  can  see  at  a  glance  how  this 
plan  will  help  to  improve  and  multiply  the  builders,  and 
thus  speed  up  the  processes  necessary  to  transform  our 
thousands  of  members  into  tens  of  thousands  and  hun- 
dreds of  thousands. 

Talking  Points  for  the  Colleges. 

In  only  an  instance  or  two  will  any  part  of  the  money 
that  goes  to  our  colleges  be  used  for  debt.  In  the  main, 
our  institutions  have  been  careful  about  incurring  ex- 
pense budgets  that  they  could  not  meet.  The  General 
Secretary  of  Education  has  been  very  insistent  on  this 
point,  and  his  influence  has  been  exerted  constantly  to- 
ward this  end.  Hence  the  aggregate  indebtedness  of  our 
institutions  of  learning  at  this  very  time  is  far  less  than 
for  many  years.  In  a  number  of  instances  where  institu- 
tions had  great  debts  like  millstones  about  their  necks  a 
few  years  ago,  they  are  now  nearly  or  quite  paid  off,  ex- 
cepting York  College  and  Philomath  College.  This  is 
certainly  an  encouraging  phase  of  the  work. 

The  resources  sought  for  our  institutions  in  the  ensuing 
cam.paign,  therefore,  will  be  used  almost  wholly  for 
equipment  and   endowment. 

The  larger  part  of  the  apportionment  to  our  educa- 
tional agencies  will  be  used  for  endowment.  This  is  a 
matter  that  should  have  an  especial  appeal  to  our  people. 
In  the  first  place  an  institution  cannot  be  one  of  standard 


grade  and  have  recognition  b}'  state  boards  of  education, 
unless  it  has  a  certain  amount  of  endowment.  Hence  to 
properly  endow  our  institutions  means  to  bring  them  up 
to  the  standard.  And  it  must  not  be  forgotten  that  there 
is  little  hope  of  permanency  for  the  college  which  does 
not  steadily  advance  and  gain  and  hold  standard  rank. 
The  sum  of  $200,000  for  endowment  is  the  minimum  in 
this  particular,  and  a  number  of  our  institutions  have  not 
yet  reached  it.  Of  course  a  far  larger  amount  of  endow- 
ment is  required  in  many  of  the  sections  of  the  Church 
in  order  that  an  institution  hold  its  place  side  by  side 
with  those  of  other  denominations- 

In  the  second  place,  endowment  should  appeal  to  our 
people,  because  it  is  the  cheapest  way  to  support  our 
schools.  We  raise  money  for  current  expense  and  it  is 
expended  and  gone  forever.  We  raise  money  for  endow- 
ment and  it  is  ours  forever  and  constantly  produces  money 
for  current  expense.  Let  us  suppose  that  over  and  above 
tuition  fees  and  the  educational  offering  from  the  tribu- 
tary conferences,  an  institution  needs  the  sum  of  $12.00() 
in  order  to  conduct  its  work  for  one  year.  We  raise  the 
$12,000,  and  the  bills  are  met.  Then  we  have  to  do  the 
same  thing  next  year  and  the  next  year  and  so  on  for  a 
period  of,  let  us  say.  sixteen  years.  What  have  we  done? 
We  have  raised  and  spent  the  sum  of  $200,000  and  are  just 
where  we  were  sixteen  years  ago.  All  this  time  we  have 
been  running  an  inferior  school,  and  on  this  account  have 
had  a  smaller  attendance,  a  smaller  income  from  tuition, 
and  getting  nowhere.  Such  a  policy  is  short-sighted  and 
suicidal.  Why  not  rally  and  raise  the  $200,000  now? 
Then  it  will  produce  the  necessary  $12,000  a  year,  not  only 
for  one  year  or  five  years  or  sixteen  years.  l)ut  through 
all  time  to  come. 

In  our  United  Brethren  colleges  this  year  there  are  in 
preparation  for  ministerial  and  missionary  work  the  fol- 
lowing numbers:  Otterbein  College  82,  Lebanon  Valley 
College  31,  Indiana  Central  University  43.  Kansas  City 
University  22.  York  College  17.  Shenandoah  Collegiate 
Institute  15,  Philomath  College  7. 

Quotations  on  Christian  Education. 

The   Christian   college   is  the   West   Point  of   Protestant 
Christianity. — President  J.   Campbell  White- 
Secular  education  is  only    half    an    education    with    the 
more  important  half  left  out. — Sir  Robert  Pell. 

To  educate  reason  without  educating  desire  is  like  sell- 
ing a  repeating  rifle  to  a  savage. —  Herbert  Spencer. 

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The  race  may  not  1)e  to  the  swift  nor  the  battle  to  the 
strong,  but  the  leadership  of  the  world's  life  must  be  to 
the  trained  and  educated  men  and  women. — Secretary  F. 
W.  Padelford. 

The  churches  must  implant  in  the  hearts  and  consciences 
of  their  members  and  all  of  our  people  the  fundamental 
truth  that  "the  soul  of  education  is  the  education  of  the 
soul." — Interchurch  World  Survey. 

The  men  and  women  who  are  sacrificing  to  make  it  pos- 
sible to  save  our  young  people  to  the  Church  and  train 
them  for  Christian  leadership  are  sowing  seed  in  the  most 
fertile  soil. — President  I.  J.  Good. 

The  secret  of  an  advancing  church,  the  assurance  of  a 
stable  government,  the  hope  of  an  abiding  civilization  is 
a  consecrated  and  well-trained  leadership.  For  this  sort 
of  leadership  we  must  look  to  the  Christian  college. — 
Secretary  Wm-  E.  Schell. 

The  Christian  college  stands  for  the  physical,  mental 
and  moral  development  of  its  students.  What  does  this 
mean  for  the  church?  It  means  trained  and  cultured 
young  men  and  women  sent  out  to  bless  the  church  and 
the  world. — President  G.  D.  Gossard. 

Christian  education  is  a  necessity  of  the  church  and  the 
Kingdom  of  God.  America  cannot  be  saved  without  it, 
and  the  Christian  college  must  have  the  support  that  will 
enable  it  to  do  its  part  worthily  in  a  day  when  only  the 
best  will  suffice. — Chancellor  A.  N-  Ward. 

Christianity  is  functioning  to-day  in  world  leadership 
as  never  before,  and  this  means  that  the  church  must  pro- 
mote education  under  Christian  control  as  never  in  all 
history.  We  must  multiply  our  student  body  by  at  least 
five,  and  do  it  at  once. — Bishop  W.  M.  Bell. 

No  benefaction  is  more  far-reaching  or  lasting  than  one 
that  furnishes  a  sound  training  to  men  and  women.  It 
gives  men  what  they  most  need  and  sends  them  to  the 
ends  of  the  earth.  One  who  plans  and  helps  a  Christian 
school  is  providing  for  the  training  of  rnen  and  women 
who  cheer  and  elevate  society.— ^President  L.  L.  Epley. 

Why  should  all  the  denominations,  large  and  small,  take 
the  pains  and  expend  the  means  to  build  and  maintain  in- 
stitutions of  learning,  unless  they  were  regarded  as  funda- 
mental? The  United  Brethren  Church  might  as  well  close 
its  doors  and  go  out  of  business  as  to  eliminate  its  col- 
lege and  seminary  work. — President  J.  P.  Landis. 

We  rightly  look  to  our  colleges  and  theological  seminary 
for  safe,   proper,  and   efficient   denominational   leadership. 

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As  a  Church  we  must  educate  our  youth  and  train  them 
for  Christian  service  or  perish.  Let  it  be  known  and  pro- 
claimed that  Christian  education  is  the  hope  and  promise 
of  the  present  and  future  church. — Bishop  G.  M.  Mathews. 

Thousands  of  new  missionaries  and  ministers,  leaders 
in  religious  education  and  other  forms  of  church  work,  will 
be  needed  in  the  next  years.  Besides,  a  better  and  a  dif- 
ferent type  will  be  needed.  These  conditions  impose  upon 
the  church  a  new  obligation  and  opportunity  to  call  out 
and  to  educate  these  young  people  for  their  task. — Pres- 
ident W.  G.  Clippinger. 

Questions  of  the  young  seeker  after  truth  must  be 
answered.  The  dangers  of  a  shipwreck  are  many  and  the 
studying  and  guiding  mind  of  a  strong  Christian  teacher 
is  of  incalculable  value.  Moreover,  the  church  cannot 
possibly  hope  to  raise  up  an  adequate  force  of  lay  and 
ministerial  leaders  for  her  work  unless  her  institutions 
of  learning  are  supported  with  enthusiasm  and  liberality. 

—Bishop  H.  H.  Font. 

The  Christian  college  has  only  one  mission — to  prepare 
young  men  and  women  for  successful  leadership,  for  suc- 
cessful workmanship  in  the  varying  field  of  life's  activ- 
ities. And  so  long  as  qualification  of  mind  and  heart  is 
essential  to  success  in  any  and  every  field  of  Christian 
activity,  so  long  the  Christian  college  will  fill  a  place  in 
society  and  in  the  church  that  no  other  force  or  institu- 
tion can  fill. — Bishop  C.  J.  Kephart. 

When  we  grasp  the  far-reaching  influence  of  Christian 
education  we  cannot  be  indifferent  to  its  claims.  In  the 
past  many  have  not  taken  the  task  seriously,  but  the  time 
is  at  hand  for  us  to  achieve  results  commensurable  with 
our  ability  as  a  great  and  growing  people.  With  clarified 
vision  we  see  the  challenge  which  our  opportunities  are 
bringing  to  us.  Christian  education  is  vitally  connected 
with  everything  which  concerns  the  United  Brethren  pro- 
gram in  Christendom. — Bishop  Wm.  H.  Washinger. 

Shenandoah  Collegiate  Institute  has  been  the  means  of 
helping  hundreds  of  young  people  to  a  start  in  the  great 
field  of  education.  Its  object  is  to  help  those  who  aspire 
to  make  a  success  of  life.  It  appeals  to  all  sections,  has 
students  from  more  than  twenty  States,  and  holds  the 
record  as  having  the  largest  number  of  Bible  students  of 
any  school  in  the  State  of  Virginia. — Pres.  J.  H.  Ruebush. 


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Chapter  16. 
Ministerial  Support  and  Relief— $400,000. 

Tlie  United  Enlistment  Movement  seeks  among  other 
goals  the  endowment  of  a  fund  for  preachers'  aid.  One- 
tenth  of  the  total  askings  is  for  this  worthy  cause  and 
no  one  will  say  it  is  too  much  or  even  that  it  is  adequate 
to  meet  the  need-  The  church  facing  such  facts  as  the  fol- 
lowing will  determine  that  at  least  this  minimum  relief  fund 
shall  be  raised  for  her  worthy  ministers  who  have  grown 
old  or  have  become  disabled  in  her  service.  The  aim  for 
ministerial  support  henceforth  must  be  adequate  salary 
while  in  the  work,  and  a  retiring  pension  at  old  age.  The 
church's  greatest  asset  is  the  sacrificial  service  of  its  min- 
isters. Therefore  it  behooves  the  church  not  to  starve  her 
preachers  who  have  left  all  to  represent  Christ  on  earth 
to  a  sin-cursed  world. 

Industrial  corporations  have  out-stripped  the  church  in 
this  matter  of  justice  to  faithful  servants.  Increasingly 
commercial,  industrial  public  service  and  other  institutions 
are  adopting  pension  plans.  Figuring  six  of  these  on  a 
basis  of  thirty-five  years  of  service  and  an  average  salary 
of  $2,000  for  the  last  ten  years  of  service,  the  pensions 
allowed  would  be  as  follows: 

Pennsylvania    Railroad     $  700.00  a  year 

Internatioual   Harvester  Co 875.00  a  year 

Standard  Oil  Co 1,400.00  a  year 

American  Telegraph  &  Telephone  Co 1. 400.00  a  year 

First  National  Bank,  Chicago    1.400-00  a  year 

Carnegie  Foundation   1,400.00  a  year 

Average  Pension  for  six  Corporations. ..  .$1,196.00  a  year 

On  the  same  basis  of  thirty-five  years  of  service  and  an 
average  salary  of  $2,000.00  for  ten  years,  preceding  retire- 
ment, six  of  the  leading  denominations  who  have  done  the 
most  for  their  retired  ministers  would  pay  the  following 
pensions: 

One  would  average   $875.00  a  year 

Three  would  average 500.00  a  year 

One   would   average    470.00  a  year 

One   would   average    350.00  a  year 

Average  Pension  for  six  denominations  ..  ..$533.00  a  year 

It  should  be  noted  that  this  pension  would  be  on  an  as- 
sumed salary  of  $2,000.00  for  ten  years  preceding  retire- 
ment. That  the  actual  average  pensions  would  be  far  less 
than  $533.00  can  be  seen  from  the  following  table  of  sal- 

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aries  paid  in  tlie  United  States  by  seventeen  denominations 
in  1918,  which  is  much  more  than  the  average  for  the  past 
ten  years. 

s  in  United 

Salary 
Received 
Less  than  $500-00 
$500.00  to  1,000.00 
1,000.00  to  1,500.00 
1,500.00  to  2,000.00 
2,000.00  to  2,500.00 
2.500.00  to  3,000.00 
3,000.00  to  4.000.00 
4,000.00  to  5,000.00 
Over  5,000.00 

The  United  Enlistment  Movement  is  asking  the  Church 
for  $400,000  in  two  years  for  ministerial  relief.  This  is 
only  59c  a  "member  per  year  or  5c  a  month.  Surely  there 
can  be  no  quibbling  about  this  amount  unless  the  Church 
should  cry  out  against  its  insufficiency. 


Ministers  in 

United 

Seventeen 

Brethren 

Denominations 

Ministers 

2,653 

297 

7,299 

553 

7,256 

548 

2,433 

116 

1,012 

15 

485 

5 

285 

0 

84 

0 

71 

0 

MINISTERIAL  RELIEF. 
Church  Relief. 

TTow  would  it  do  to  call  this  church  relief  instead  of 
ministerial  relief?  It  is  a  bad  bargain  for  the  church  when 
it  underpays  its  ministry,  just  as  it  would  be  poor  economy 
for  a  farmer  to  underfeed  his  stock,  or  for  a  manufac- 
turer to  pfovide  insufficient  care  for  his  motor  trucks. 
The  church  doesn't  get  the  best  thinking  or  the  best  leader- 
ship out  of  a  minister  haunted  by  unpaid  bills,  fear  of  the 
rainy  day.  and  daily  sight  of  wife  and  children  deprived  of 
common  necessities.  Ministerial  relief  is  also  church 
relief. 

Why  Ministers  Quit. 

"If  I  were  pastor  of  a  church  and  my  salary  had  not 
been  raised  since  the  war.  I  would  quit."  So  says  a  Bap- 
tist preacher.  And  they  are  quitting,  just  as  teachers  are 
quitting,  not  because  they  want  to  quit  or  because  they 
have  ceased  to  love  their  chosen  vocation,  but  because  they 
can't  look  the  butcher  and  grocer  in  the  face  on  the  sal- 
aries paid. 

Turn  the  Tables. 

Instead  of  pleading  that  ministers  be  better  paid,  how 
would  it  do  to  turn  the  batteries  the  other  way,  and  ask 
the  church  what  it  can  say  in  its  own  defense  for  paying 
pastors  less  than  they  earn?  An  industrial  corporation  is 
roundly   condemned   if   it  pays   its   employees   less   than   a 

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living  wage.  What,  then,  shall  be  said  of  the  Christian 
corporation,  still  paying  the  salary  of  five  years  ago,  with 
a  dollar  that  is  worth  only  sixty  per  cent,  of  its  former 
value? 

It  Can't  Be  Done. 
A  minister  must  have  three  things:  a  college  education, 
a  library,  and  a  Prince  Albert  coat.     A  wife  is  a  decided 
asset,   and   children   are   desirable.     How   can   he   get   and 
keep  these  necessities  on'  the  salary  which  he  receives  " 

Salaries  in  Terms  of  Automobiles. 

In  one  of  our  great  Protestant  denominations  more  than 
half  the  pastors  receive  salaries  less  than  the  first  cost 
and  a  year's  running  expenses  and  upkeep  of  a  family 
"Ford."  There  are  about  1,200  others  whose  total  income 
might  provide  an  "Overland"  and  200  additional  pastors 
whose  salaries  are  so  sumptuous  that  if  their  family  ex- 
penses were  endowed  and  they  kept  a  careful  eye  on  the 
speedometer  they  might  possil)ly  operate  a  "Ruick." 
There  are  also  100  pastors  who  might  buy  and  store  and 
starve  on  a  "Pierce-Arrow." 

Corporations  Excel  Churches. 

Industry  has  adopted  old  age  pensions  on  the  principle 
that  it  should  bear  the  life  costs  of  those  who  give  to  it 
the  productive  years  of  their  service.  The  Government, 
the  schools,  municipalities  have  fallen  info  line,  and  the 
church  comes  in  at  the  end  of  the  procession. 
Pensions. 

Pennsylvania  Railroad $700     Church  A . . $875 

International  Harvester  Co 875     Church  B..   500 

Standard  Oil  Company 1,400     Church  C.   500 

American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  1,400     Church  D..   500 

First  National  Bank.  Chicago 1,400     Church  E..   470 

Carnegie  Foundation 1,400     Church  F..   350 

Average  Pension $1,196  Avr.  Pension  $533 

The  Churches  Pay  the  Penalty. 

From  its  policy  of  an  underpaid  ministry  the  church  has 
been  the  worst  sufferer.  In  one  denomination  1.624  more 
untrained  preachers  were  used  as  supplies  in  1918  than  in 
1898.  In  another,  out  of  986  ministers  only  476  gave  their 
full  time  to  ministerial  work.  An  inquiry  covering  3,500 
ministers  of  one  denomination  showed  50  per  cent-  with- 
out college  education,  w^iile  not  one  in  four  had  both  col- 
lege and  seminary  degrees.  Untrained  or  part-time  min- 
isters can't  give  the  church  a  winning  leadership  in  this 
critical  time. 


Poor   Economy. 

The  church  protects  part  of  her  assets — her  buildings — 
by  insurance,  but  fails  to  insure  her  largest  asset,  her  min- 
istry, against  disability  and  old  age.  with  resultant  loss  of 
efficiency,  power,  and   servic*^. 


PART  FOUR. 
GENERAL  INFORMATION. 

Chapter  17- 
Budget  and  Appropriation. 

Budget  for  Two  Years. 

The  Board  of  Administration  ai)i)roved  of  the  following 
budget  for  two  years: 

Foreign  Missions $694,000 

Home  Missions   389,000 

Church  Erection 400,000 

Preachers'  Aid   400,000 

Sunday-school  Board  of  Control 35,000 

Sunday-school   Centennial    40,000 

Young  People's  Work 16,000 

Evangelism    20,000 

Annual  Conference  Budgets 550,000 

Board  of  Education 16,000 

College  Scholarship  Funds 75,000 

Seminary    250,000 

Seminary  Scholarship  Fund 75,000 

Otterbein  College 200,000 

Lebanon  Valley  College  .* 200,000 

Indiana  Central  University 120,000 

Kansas  City  University 100,000 

York  College    100.000 

Philomath  College    40,000 

Shenandoah  Collegiate  Institute 40,000 

Board  of  Adm.,  Bishops'  Salaries,  and  General 

Church  Treasurer  50,000 

Campaign  Expenses 165,000 

General  Conference  Expenses 25,000 

Total $4,000,000 


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Apportionment  of  $4,000,000  to  the  Annual  Conferences — 
The  Two-Year  Budget. 

Allegheny    $342,152 

California   44,773 

Colorado 23,165 

Columbia  River   16,687 

East  Ohio   193,854 

East  Pennsylvania 362,624 

Erie    103,992 

]•  lorida 2,332 

Illinois    261,650 

Indiana    101,159 

Iowa 152,669 

Kansas    227,535 

Louisiana    5,078 

Miami 244,117 

Michigan 43,092 

Minnesota    21,679 

Missouri   41,488 

Montana     12,320 

Nebraska    .- 107,415 

New  Mexico   3,857 

Ohio  German 29,915 

Oklahoma    37,609 

Oregon    30,719 

Pennsylvania     292,263 

St.  Joseph    261,681 

Sandusky    277,619 

Southeast  Ohio 174,840 

Tennessee    25,382 

Virginia    136,515 

West   Virginia    169,418 

White  River    ' 215,202 

Wisconsin    37,199 

Total $4,000,000 


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Chapter  18. 
How  the  Apportionment  Was  Made. 

The  Basis  of  Apportioning  the  Four  Million  Dollar  Budget. 

A  goal  of  $4,000,000  has  been  fixed  by  the  Board  of  Ad- 
ministration for  the  benevolences  of  the  United  Brethren 
Church  for  the  next  two  years.  Subscriptions  will  be 
taken  on  a  two-year  basis-  A  special  committee  appointed 
to  work  out  an  equitable  basis  for  the  apportioning  of  this 
sum  to  the  annual  conferences  and  local  churches  recom- 
mended the  following  which  was  adopted  by  the  Board: 

"The  basis  of  allotment  to  the  annual  conferences  shall 
be  on  the  equal  one-fourth  (54)   basis  of: 

(a)  Membership. 

(b)  Pastors"  salaries,  including  parsonage  rent. 

(c)  General  Benevolences  for  the  year  1919,  plus  the 
average  of  the  conference  i)enevolences  for  the  years  1917, 
1918,  1919. 

(d)  Net  value  of  church  property,  exclusive  of  church 
parsonages." 

It  is  evident  that  distribution  on  basis  of  membership 
alone,  while  exactly  equal  for  every  member  as  regards 
amount,  woul-d  not  be  equal  in  the  light  of  the  ability  to 
pay,  which  varies  a  great  deal-  Also  if  the  distribution 
were  made  only  on  the  basis  of  what  previously  had  been 
given  to  general  benevolences  it  would  not  be  equitable, 
since  churches  and  conferences  have  varied  in  their  sup- 
port to  the  budget.  A  church  or  conference  that  paid  a 
full  budget  would  be  penalized  for  its  good  work  since  it 
would  get  a  correspondingly  large  share  of  the  big  budget. 
The  four  items  finally  selected  prove  to  be  equalizing  fac- 
tors and  a.  distribution  made  on  this  basis  will  be  fair  and 
just  as  it  relates  to  numerical  strength  and  giving  ability. 
One-fourth  only  is  distributed  on  the  basis  of  member- 
ship while  three-fourths  is  allotted  on  the  basis  of  the 
past  giving  of  a  conference  or  church. 

A  question  might  arise  as  to  why  the  conferences  are 
averaged  for  1917-18-19,  while  the  general  benevolences 
are  taken  for  1919.  The  answer  is,  that  the  conference 
benevolence  budget,  being  rather  stable  and  likewise  the 
support  to  same  being  generally  uniform,  an  average  for 
the  three  years  would  give  a  fair  estimate  of  the  contribu- 
tions to  these  interests.  When  one  looks  at  the  General 
Benevolence  Budget,  however,  he  finds  that  it  is  only  the 
last  year  that  the  churches  and  conferences  have  generally 

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reached  somewhat  near  the  goal  that  was  set  for  them. 
Some  churches  were  rather  backward  in  assuming  their 
part  of  this  budget  in  the  past  years.  If  one  would  aver- 
age the  contributions  to  the  general  benevolence  budget 
for  the  past  three  years  one  would  again  penalize  the 
faithful  congregations  which  have  been  raising  their 
quotas  in  full  or  nearly  so. 

To  find  now  the  amount  to  be  distributed  to  each  an- 
nual conference  or  to  a  local  church  we  ascertain  the  fig- 
ures that  represent  each  of  the  four  items  as  used  in  the 
basis  of  allotment.  "These  items  are  multiplied  by  their 
respective  decimals  as  shown  below.  The  decimals  were 
ascertained  as  follows.  For  membership  we  divide  the 
total  membership  of  the  church  in  the  United  States, 
which  is  339,6S0,  into  $1, '000,000  or  the  fourth  part  of  the 
entire  budget.  This  gives  the  decimal  2.9439.  The  deci- 
mal for  salary  and  parsonage  rent  is  found  by  taking  the 
total  paid  last  year  for  this  item,  which  was  $1,395,425  and 
ascertaining  what  part  of  a  million  dollars  each  church  ur 
conference  is  to  pay  for  every  dollar  of  salary  plus  rent 
paid.  Dividing  1,000,000  by  $1,395,425  we  get  the  decimal 
.71662. 

The  decimal  for  benevolences  is  found  by  adding  to  the 
amount  paid  for  general  benevolences  last  year,  1919,  the 
average  paid  for  conference  benevolences  for  1917,  1918, 
and  1919.  This  equals  $351,696  and  is  divided  into  1,000,- 
000,  giving  the  decimal  2.8433. 

The  last  decimal  is  for  church  property.     The  net  value 
of  church  property  last    year     was    $13,991,383.     Dividing 
1,000,000  by  that  number,  our  decimal  is  .071472. 
Taking  for  example   California,  it  figures  out  as  follows: 

Membership    2,284  x  2.9439    --$  6,724 

Salary  plus  rent 19,559  x     .71662  —  14,016 

Benevolences    3,511x2.8433     —    9,983 

Property    196,571   x     .071472—  14.050 

Total   apportionment   of   $4,000,000 

for  two  years $44,773.00 


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Chapter  19. 
Red  Letter  Days. 

1.  March  28 — Decision  Day. 

(See  Chapter  21 — Suggestions  for  Sunday 
School  Leaders.) 

2.  April  4 — Ingathering  Day. 
Topic— "Why  Unite  With  the  Church." 

Text — Acts  2:47— "And  the  Lord  added  to  the  church 
daily  such  as  should  be  saved." 

Introduction — Define  the  term  Church  and  describe  the 
scene  at  Pentecost,  and  the  spirit  of  Evangelism  that  fol- 
lowed as  indicated  in  the  text. 

1.  It  affords  the  greatest  means  for  the  development 
of  Christian  life  and  character. 

2.  It  furnishes  the  highest  form  of  Christian  social  fel- 
lowship. (Men  and  women  of  all  walks  of  life  in  the 
church  group.) 

3.  It  gives  spiritual  uplift  through  public  worshio  and 
other  means  of  grace. 

4.  It  gives  one  a  vision  and  great  concern  for  the  great 
things  of  God  at  home  and  abroad.  It  makes  one  altruistic. 

5.  It  is  God's  plan  for  helping  every  Christian.  It  pro- 
vides a  church  home.     A  Christian  cannot  live  without  it. 

6.  Requirements   for   Church   membership. 

(1)  The  acceptance  of  Jesus  Christ  as  one's  per- 
sonal Savior;  (2)  A  willingness  to  use  the 
means  the  Church  offers  for  Christian  develop- 
ment; (3)  A  willingness  to  abide  by  the  rules  of 
the  Church;  (4)  A  loyal  and  liberal  support  of 
the  Church;  (5)  A  deeo  concern  for  otheis. 

— C.  W.  B. 


3.     April  11— The  Church  Fmding  Her  Task. 
THE  TASK  OF  THE  CHURCH. 

A.     America  must  be  made  truly  Christian. 

I.  Every  nook  and  corner  has  its  right  to  Christ. 

a.  The  City. 

1.  The  wealthy,  moral  person. 

2.  The  poor  and  open  sinner. 

3.  The  foreigner. 

4.  The  indifferent. 

b.  The  \\  ell-established  rural  communities. 

c.  The  frontier. 

1.  In    farming   districts. 

2.  In  new  towns. 

(1.  Mining  communities. 

e.  Logging  camps. 

f.  Indian  reservations. 

g.  Spanish-speaking  territory, 
h.  The  negro  of  the  South. 

i.  The  mountain  districts. 

II.  Every  human  being  has  a  right  to  Christ. 

a.  The  child  in  our  midst. 

b.  Youth. 

c.  Maturity. 

d.  The  aged. 

U.     What  America  needs  the  whole  world  needs. 

I.  China  is  a  country  of  cities — a    village    may    have 

500.000. 
IT.  The    degraded     womanhood     of     India     begs    for 

Christ's  restoring  power. 

III.  Ignorant,    superstitious,    vile    Africa    begs  not  to 

have     to    become    worse    under    ]\Iohammed- 

anism. 
1  \\   Europe   pleads   for  peace — and   Christ  is   th.c   only 

way. 
\\   Educated,    cultured    Latin    America    begs    for    the 

realities   of  life. 
C\     Improving  environment,  adjusting   social   conditions 

have  only  temporary  value.     L^nless  Christ  be 

in  the  hearts,  effort  is  vain. 


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4.     April  18— How  Can  the  Task  Be  Done. 

HOW  CAN  THIS  TASK  BE  MET? 

The  church  will  meet  its  task. 

A.  When  the  church  Army  is  in  readiness. 

I.  When   we   have   able    Leadership. 

II.  When   the   ranks  behind  the   leaders  are   qualified. 

a.  The  children  in  the  comnuniity  attending  Sunday 

School. 

b.  The  youth  in  the  Christian  hindeavor. 

c.  The  entire  church  membership  in  the  services  of 

the  Church. 

III.  When  the  Army  is  provided  for. 

a.  In   good   buildings,   adequately   eciuipped. 

b.  With   strong,  spiritual   food    (again    Leadership!). 

IV.  When  it  is  getting  proper  exercise, 

a.  In  personal   work. 

b.  In   consecration. 

c.  In  self-sacrifice. 

B.  When  it  is  using  the  resources  it  possesses. 

I.  In  life. 

a.  The   active    work   of   the   ministry   must  be   made 

appealing  to  our  young  men  and  women. 

b.  Parents  must  be  willing  to  give  their  children  for 

such  service. 

II.  In  money. 

a.  If  our  present  membership  gave  its  tithe  our  de- 
nomination would  have  $13,000,000;  the  United 
Enlistment  Movement  is  asking  for  only 
2.0CIO,000  dollars. 

III.  In  Prayer. 

a.  If  Pastor  Gossner  "prayed  up  the  walls  of  a  hos- 
pital." what  could  not  a  church  of  united  in- 
tercessors accomplish? 

IV.  In  Faith. 

a.  Mark  11:24 — ''What  things  so  ever  ye  desire, 
when  ye  pray,  believe  that  ye  receive  them, 
and  ye  shall  have  them. 

C.  When  the     church    really     accepts    and     obeys    the 

Christ  who  came  that  all  might  have  life  and 
have  it  more  abundantly. 


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5.  April  25 — Launching  Day. 

This  date  will  record  the  opening  of  the  campaign 
throughout  the  United  States.  This  day  should  be  made 
a  notable  occasion.  Eifort  should  be  put  forth  to  secure 
the  attendance  at  all  of  the  church  services  of  the  distin- 
guished men  and  women  of  the  community,  including  pub- 
lic officials  and  others.  The  morning  services  should  be 
special  services  of  inspiration,  prophecy,  and  intercession. 
The  evening  service  should  mark  a  high  point  of  inspira- 
tion. Before  the  service  the  teams  should  gather  for  sup- 
per and  reports  and  the  result  of  their  first  reports  should 
be  given  at  this  evening  service.  A  large  bulletin  or  score 
board  should  be  placed  at  the  meeting  place  of  the  teams. 
This  board  should  be  suitably  divided  so  that  the  daily 
reports  of  each  team  can  be  reported-  See  Solicitor's 
Handbook  for  details.  HOW  TEAMS  ARE  TO  RE- 
PORT. The  report  of  the  first  day  should  include  the 
maximum  subscription  of  each  member  of  the  various 
teams.  Nothing  adds  more  to  a  team  member's  zeal  than 
to  put  his  own  name  on  the  dotted  line.  It  means  much 
to  be  able  to  say  in  these  interviews,  "before  the  mem- 
bers of  the  team  asked  anybody  else  to  give,  they  them- 
selves  subscribe  a  total  of    dollars."     The 

psychology  is  bad  when  a  worker  asks  another  to  do  what 
he  has  not  been  willing  to  do  first.  Workers  report  en- 
velopes (Form  No.  9),  and  teams  report  envelopes  (Form 
No.  10),  to  be  used  in  making  the  daily  reports  on  each 
day.  These  forms  and  others  are  to  be  secured  from  ^he 
District  Director  or  through  Headquarters  at  415  Otter- 
bein  Press  Building,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

6.  May  2 — Victory  Day. 

Will  be  the  closing  day  of  the  campaign.  The  final 
report  supper  should  be  held  this  night  previous  to  the 
evening  church  service,  and  the  complete  reports  of  the 
week's  work  made  up.  This  can  be  turned  into  a  Victory 
Supper  and  then  adjourn  to  a  Victory  Service  in  the 
church  for  the  evening.  Experiences  of  workers  in  solicit- 
ing during  past  week. 


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PART  FIVE. 
PROGRAM   AND   ADDRESSES. 


Chapter  21- 

Suggestions  for  Sunday-School  Leaders.  Plans  for  Decision 

Day. 


Palm  Sunday,  March  28, 

About  eighty  per  cent,  of  those  who  come  into  the 
church  on  confession  of  faith  are  from  the  Sunday  school- 
The  United  Brethren  Church  has  not  yet  learned  to 
gather  its  harvest.  Out  of  250.000  pupils  in  our  Sunday 
schools  who  are  not  members  of  the  church  about  150,- 
000  are  above  ei^ht  years  of  age,  and  yet  last  year  only 
11,087  were  added  to  the  Church.  How  long  will  we  con- 
tinue to  neglect  this  field  that  is  ripe  unto  the  harvest.  If 
each  of  the  Sunday-school  officers  and  teachers  would  win 
one,  we  would  have  40,117  converts.  We  should  aim  to 
reach  every  one. 

The  pastor  should  take  the  lead,  call  officers  and  teach- 
ers together  for  counsel,  plans  and  prayer.  Take  a  survey 
of  your  school.  Learn  how  many  there  are  to  win.  Each 
teacher  should  know  who  in  his  class  are  unsaved,  then 
visit  the  homes  and  prepare  the  way.  Pray  for  each  pupil 
by  name. 

When  the  day  arrives  have  the  program  ready. 

All  teachers  and  officers  present  ahead  of  time. 

Select  great  evangelistic  church  hymns  and  songs. 

Create  a  devotional  and  deeply  spiritual  atmosphere. 

Have  each  teacher  prepare  the  way  for  decision  in  his 
class. 

The  pastor,  superintendent  or  some  strong  Christian 
leader  well  known  to  the  school  should  present  briefly 
the  claims  of  Christ  for  decision. 

Following  the  decision  all  teachers  should  come  with 
those  who  have  decided,  around  the  altar  for  dedication 
and  consecration  while  a  hymn  of  invitation  is  being  sung. 
A  few  earnest  prayers,  followed  by  words  of  loving!  coun- 
sel will  do  wonders, 

C^t  all  converts  to  sign  a  covenant  card  with  name  and 
addreta. 

Prepare  them  i^r  church  member tki^.  Look  after  them 
Cftr«fu!Uy  aB«l  t«Ach  tbcsa  te   f>nictie«  ChHeti^B  lt-«4ik|f  &nd 


INGATHERING  DAY. 

Easter  Sunday,  April  4. 

Easter  Sunday  is  a  nation-wide  Ingathering  Day,  fol- 
lowing the  Decision  Day  on  Palm  Sunday  and  the  special 
services  of  Passion  Week.  Many  hundreds  of  thousands 
are  expected  to  unite  with  the  church  on  that  glorious 
day.  The  United  Brethren  Church  is  expected  to  do  her 
part.  Our  goal  this  Conference  Year  is  one  new  member 
for  every  five  reported  in  our  latest  Year  Book,  which  is 
about  70,000.  We  should  go  beyond  that  number  and  will. 
if  every  one  will  do  his  whole  duty.  We  call  upon  all 
Sunday  School  officers  and  teachers  to  do  their  utmost 
to  bring  the  saved  pupils  into  church  fellowship.  Con- 
certed action  and  united  prayers  will  bring  the  results. 

Fifteen  minutes  prayer  service  before  the  Sunday-school 
hour. 

A  program  in  which  the  songs  and  prayers  will  exalt  the 
church  and  her  privileges. 

A  short  heart-to-heart  talk  by  each  teacher  to  his  class 
on  the  value  of  church  membership. 

Plan  for  the  entire  school  to  remain  for  church  service. 
Officers  and  teachers  taking  the  lead. 

A  combined  service  might  prove  valuable  in  some  places. 


THE  CHURCH  FINDS  HER  TASK. 
Sunday,  April  11. 

Put  up  Interchurch  and  United  Enlistment  Charts  where 
pupils  can  see  them.  Have  some  one  give  a  brief,  clear- 
cut  talk  on  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  and  the  part 
our  own  denomination  is  expected  to  take  in  reaching 
her  goals. 

Tell  briefly  the  chief  aims  of  the  movement,  viz.: 
1-     Quickening  the  entire  Church  spiritually. 

2.  Enlisting  the  membership  as   Christian   stewards. 

3.  The  enlistment  and  training  of  our  choice  young 
people  for  definite  Christian  leadership,  as  ministers, 
missionaries,  etc. 

4.  Asking  every  member  and  friend  of  the  Church  to 
pledge  for  benevolences  (Conference  and  general),  as. 
largely  as  he  possibly  can  so  that  the  United  Brethren 
Church  can  do  its  share  in  helping  to  reach  the  last  man, 
woman  and  child  for  Christ  and  his  kingdom.  Tell  the 
amount  for  our  denomination  and  for  our  local  church. 
Tell  them  that  the  General  Sund^iy-school  Department 
will  share  in  the  funds,  and  each  one  is  asked  to  do  his 
part. 


HOW   SHALL  THE   TASK   BE   DONE? 
Sunday,  April  18. 

Meet  all  officers  and  teachers  of  the  Sunday  School  and 
secure  their  pledge  for  service. 

Have  the  strongest  layman  you  can  get  to  address  the 
school  for  a  few  minutes  on  each  person's  part  in  the  big 
financial  campaign. 

Make  it  a  matter  of  earnest  prayer  and  then  create  a 
hopeful  atmosphere. 

Have  the  matter  presented  to  each  young  people's  and 
adult  class  and  select  the  best  men  and  women  you  can 
get  from  these  classes  to  aid  in  the  campaign  work. 

See  that  an  ample  quantity  of  proper  printed  matter  is 
secured  and  placed  in  the  hands  of  those  selected. 

Make  the  school  feel  that  it  is  a  big  part  of  the  move- 
ment  and  that  it  will  share   in  its   results. 


LAUNCHING   DAY  — THE   BIG   DRIVE. 
Sunday,  April  25. 

Again  call  a  prayer-meeting  of  all  officers  and  teachers 
with  those  who  have  been  chosen  to  take  part  in  the  big 
drive. 

Have  a  strong  Sunday-school  program. 

Select  music  that  has  the  patriotic  and  conquering 
spirit  in  it. 

Have  some  one  to  present  the  goals  and  plans  for  the 
big  drive  briefly,  but  with  a  spirit  that  will  inspire  faith, 
hope,  and  courage  on  the  part  of  all  who  are  present. 

Let  the  outstanding  note,  Preparedness,  be  emphasized. 

Urge  each  one  to  do  his  best  by  subscription  and  per- 
sonal word  and  influence. 

Announce  the  coming  Sabbath  as  Victory  Day. 


VICTORY  DAY. 
Sunday,  May  2. 

Make  this  the  greatest  Visitation  Day  for  the  Sunday 
school  you  have  ever  had- 

Send  a  letter  to  every  delinquent  pupil  to  be  present. 

Send  invitations  to  those  who  do  not  attend  Sunday 
school  to  be  present. 

All  officers  and  teachers  present  before  time  to  welcome 
pupils  and  visitors. 

Sound  the  note  of  victory  and  joy  in  song  and  prayer, 
and  the  social  atmosphere. 

Enroll  new  pupils. 

Give  brief  report  of  big  campaign. 

Whole  school  remain  for  church  service.  , 

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Chapter  22. 
W.  M.  A.  &  O.  G.  APRIL  MEETING. 

Scripture  Lesson:  Joshua   1:1-8. 

The  Interchurch  World  Movement  —  What  It  Is. 
(See  April  Evangel.) 

The  Interchurch  World  Movement  —  A  Challenge. 
(See  pages  86  and  87  of  March  Evangel  and  "Survey  of 
the  Surveys,"  in  April  Evangel.) 

The  Relation  of  United  Brethren  to  the  Movement. 
(April  Evangel.) 

The  Movement  a  Call  to  Prayer  and  Sacrificial  Giving. 
(April  Evangel.) 

(For  poster  use  some  such  slogan  as  "Let  the  women 
help  put  the  MOVE  into  the  Interchurch  World  Move- 
ment.) 


WOMEN'S  ACTIVITIES. 
The  "Key  Woman"  and  Her  Job. 
In  each  church  a  "key  woman"  should  be  selected  to  be 
the  medium  of  communication,  but  every  Christian 
woman  should  bear  a  double  relationship  to  the  Inter- 
church Movement  and  be  doubly  interested  in  its  success 
— -first,  as  a  church  member,  second,  as  a  member  of  a 
woman's  missionary  organization.  Her  program  as  an 
individual  should  be: 

1.  To  maintain  church  and  board  activity. 

2.  To  advertise  loyally  the  advantages  of  the  Inter- 
church Movement  in  making  for  economy,  evangelism,  and 
enlargement  of  plans. 

3-  To  offer  volunteer  service  to  her  own  church  and 
also  to  the  Women's  Activities  Department  of  the  Inter- 
church World  Movement. 

4.  To  pray  constantly  that  in  all  plans  the  spiritual 
and   the   co-operative   be   considered   of  chief  importance. 

5.  To  cultivate  enthusiasm  for  the  great  power  that 
church  women  can  exert  in  advertising  and  working 
through    the    Interchurch    World    Movement. 

A  Great  Potential  Force. 
The  Women's  Activities  Department  is  dealing  with  60 
per  cent,  of  the  membership  of  the  evangelical  churches. 
Known  to  all  is  women's  magnificent  service  in  home 
and  foreign  mission  fields.  In  the  united  study  of  mis- 
sions and  in  the  publication  of  text  books  for  interde- 
nominational use  women  were  pioneers,  and  women's 
boards  were  quick  to  recognize  the  advantages  of  co- 
operation along  all  lines  of  the  Interchurch   Movement. 


Chapter  23. 
SUGGESTED  OUTLINE  FOR  ADDRESS. 

Feeding  Only  Crumbs. 

Scripture:  Luke   16:19-2L 

1.     The    rich    man    is    the    American    Christian.      He    is 
rich  in: 
a.     Material  prosperity. 

America  has  one-third  the  world's  wealth. 
Land  of  food.  Famines  occur  in  non-Chris- 
tian countries.  200,000,000  people  in  Asia 
and  Africa  go  to  bed  every  night  with  hun- 
ger unsatisfied. 
h.     Opportunities   for   mental    development- 

94.6  per  cent-  of  population  of  India  illiterate. 
6  per  cent,  of  population  of  United  States  il- 
literate. Public  schools,  books,  magazines  are 
products  of  Christianity. 

c.  Medical  protection. 

No  medical  universities  in  any  country  until 
Christianity  goes  there. 

d.  Home  life. 

No  real  homes  except  as  product  of  the  gos- 
pel. One  girl  in  every  eight  in  India  mar- 
ried between  the  ages  of  5  and  9. 

e.  Knowledge  of  Jesus   as  Savior. 

II.     The   beggar   at    the    rich    man's     gate     is    the     needy 
world. 

Mohammedanism  threatens  Africa. 
China  plastic. 

Japan's   great   spiritual   need. 
Unrest  in  America- 

III.     The    American    Christian    is    giving    only    crumbs    of 
money  and  life. 
World  War  cost  $450,000,000. 
Interest    on    that   amount   for   one    hour   at   4 
per  cent,  more  money  than  all  churches  gave 
to  missions  in   1918. 

Must  have  3,400  recruits  in  one  year  if  needs 
of  world  are  to  be  met. 
(The   poem,   "The   Scorn   of  Job,"   is  appropriate   here.) 

V.  B. 


ADDRESS. 

Text:  "Awake,  awake.  O  Zion;  put  on  thy  beautiful 
garments."  etc. 

Introduction. 

The  Christian  Church  has  never  witnessed  such  a  uni- 
versal revival  of  interest  in  its  God-given  task  as  now- 
Thirty-four  separate  denominations  have  or  are  now  put- 
ting on  strong  denominational  programs  for  the  advance- 
ment of  the  kingdom.  Marvelous  success  has  been  achieved. 
Now  these  thirty-four  denominations  have  united  in  a 
great  co-operative  movement  called  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement,  the  purpose  of  which  is  to  make  a  most 
thorough  study  of  the  spiritual  needs  of  the  whole  world. 

The  question  may  well  be  asked,  what  has  been  the 
cause  of  this  general  awakening  among  churchmen  of  all 
communions?  Doubtless  God's  Holy  Spirit  is  back  of  it 
all,  but  from  the  human  viewpoint  the  following  consider- 
ations have  been  the  things  that  have  stirred  men's  hearts 
with  the  importance  of  this  day. 

I.  The  whole  world  has  been  suddenly  thrown  into  a 
highly  volatile  condition  and  mighty  transformations  are 
bound  to  take  place  in  every  sphere  of  human  activity. 
This  affords  the  church  the  great  opportunity  of  its  his- 
tory. More  can  be  accomplished  now  in  a  few  years  than 
could  be  accomplished  in  centuries  of  ordinary  conditions. 
The  whole  world  is  now  plastic  and  can  be  molded  much 
as  we  like.  The  church  means  to  strike  hard  for  better 
things. 

II.  It  is  very  clear  that  these  mighty  transformations 
cannot  be  safely  made  without  a  fearless  application  of  the 
glorious  gospel  of  Jesus  Christ.  The  great  world  problems 
must  be  adjusted  on  the  basis  of  righteousness  and  justice 
as  exemplified  in  the  Word  of  God.  If  the  church  is  quiet 
now  and  permits  the  evil  forces  of  the  world  a  free  hand, 
the  world  is  bound  for  its  final  disaster.  Only  the  church 
can   save  the  day. 

III.  Thinking  men  are  coming  to  see  that  unless  the 
church  is  true  to  her  Lord  in  this  day  of  testing,  he  will 
have  to  turn  to  some  other  agency  that  will  carry  out  his 
plans  for  the  world.  God  called  the  Jew  for  a  great  task, 
and  when  the  time  came  and  "He  came  to  his  own  and  his 
own  received  him  not,"  God  could  do  nothing  else  than 
turn  to  other  agencies  for  the  expansion  of  his  kingdom. 
The  very  existence  of  the  church  is  at  stake. 

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I\'.  There  is  strong  belief  on  the  part  of  churclinien 
that  the  church,  as  she  is  at  present,  is  not  prepared  to 
do  the  great  task  God  has  thrust  upon  her. 

(a)  She  is  not  prepared  with  that  type  of  spiritual  life 
which  she  must  have  if  she  is  to  conquer. 

(b)  She  is  not  prepared  with  an  adequate  grip  of  what 
her  task  really  is.     John  4'. 35. 

(c)  She  is  not  equipped  with  that  degree  of  solidarity 
that  she  must  have  if  she  is  to  win.  In  unity  there  is 
strength.  A  single  denomination  is  strong  in  proportion 
as  she  can  marshal  her  combined  resources  in  any  task. 
The  United  Brethren  Church  can  do  for  all  departments 
of  the  church  what  they  could  not  do  for  thems'elves 
simply  because  it  is  a  united  movement.  The  whole 
Christian  church  can  do  infinitely  more  when  we  stand 
together. 

(d)  She  does  not  have  that  holy  passion  that  must 
characterize  her  if  she  is  to  be  triumphant. 

V.  In  spite  of  all  the  difficulties  and  the  tremendous 
size  of  our  task,  there  is  a  growing  belief  that  the  church 
can  so  relate  herself  to  her  living  Lord  and  be  so  filled 
with  his  glorious  power  that  she  can  match  unprecedented 
tasks  with  unprecedented  consecration  and  thus  hasten  the 
day  of  his  final  triumph. 


SUGGESTIONS  FOR  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR 
SOCIETIES. 

Topics  consonant  with  the  great  financial  campaign  on 
in  our  denomination  and  throughout  all  the  churches  in 
America,  with  notes  and  helps  with  detailed  suggestions 
are  published  each  week  in  the  Watchword.  The  regular 
topics  are  given  for  each  week,  but  on  April  11  and  25 
special  alternative  topics  in  keeping  with  this  campaign 
are  suggested.  We  recommend  that  societies  use  these 
special  topics  and  also  on  April  18  the  topic  be  adjusted 
to  the  special  topic  suggested  and  that  on  May  2  time  be 
arranged  for  celebrating  the  victory  of  the  campaign. 
This  is  a  great  opportunity  for  Christian  Endeavor  soci- 
eties to  render  a  real  service  to  the  young  people  and  to 
the  church  by  thoroughly  studying  the  special  topics  given 
and  their  relation  to  the  campaign-  This  will  enable  the 
young  people  to  enter  more  fully  into  the  campaign  itself. 

Advertise  your  meetings  well.  Secure  a  good  attend- 
ance and  make  much  of  these  special  Sundays  preparatory 
to  and  during  the  financial  drive.  Below  we  give  the  sug- 
gested topics  and  a  few  subjects  for  discussion. 

April  11' — The  Church  Facing  Her  Task. 

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Scripture  Lesson — John  4:35,  36;  Matt.  9:37,  38. 

Topics  for  Discussion — The  Interchurch  World  Move- 
ment. The  United  Enlistment  Movement.  The  Central 
Place  of  the  Church  in  a  Reorganized  World.  Christ,  the 
Only  Hope  to  Save  the  World  from  Chaos.  The  Mission- 
ary Opportunity  of  the  Hour. 

April  18 — Courage  Needed  To  Do  the  Task.  (The  reg- 
ular topic  is,  "When  is  Courage  Needed?"  We  suggest 
you  adapt  it  to  this  campaign  as  above.) 

Scripture  Lesson — Luke  12:4;  Deut.  21:24:  Esther  4: 
13-17. 

Topics  for  Discussion — In  What  Attitude  Should  the 
Church  Face  Her  Task?  Will  It  Require  Courage  for  Each 
Church  Member  to  Help  to  Realize  the  Goals  of  the 
United  Enlistment  Movement?  How  Can  Christian  Stew- 
ardship Help  the  Church  Face  Her  Task?  Should  Each 
One  Help  in  the  Financial  Campaign?  Explain  the  Organ- 
ization for  the  Drive.  What  Will  Happen  if  the  Church, 
Lacking  Courage,  Fails  to  Face  Her  Task? 

April  25 — Launching  the  Drive.  (Give  the  entire  even- 
ing to  the  promotion  of  the  Financial  Campaign  which 
starts  to-day.) 

Scripture  Lesson— Luke  12:31-37. 

Topics  for  Discussion — What  is  the  Purpose  of  the 
Financial  Campaign?  What  is  the  Financial  Goal  of  the 
Denomination  and  of  Your  Local  Church?  Explain  how 
the  Drive  is  to  be  Made-  Why  should  the  Campaign  be 
made  a  Success?  In  Whose  Strength  Alone  can  Success 
Come? 

May  2 — Use  the  regular  topic  for  this  Sunday,  but  set 
aside  a  time  for  hearing  the  report  of  the  success  of  the 
drive  and  then  sing  the  Doxology  if  your  church  suc- 
ceeded in  going  "over  the  top." 


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Chapter  24. 

CURRENT  COMMENTS  ON  THE  MOVEMENTS. 
Means  Greater  Respect  for  Proteatantism. 

Nevcr  before  wai  Protettantitm  in  a  position  to  so 
thoroughly  and  completely  command  the  respect  of  a 
thinking  world.  A  sufficient  amount  of  money  to  really 
man  the  Christian  forces  of  the  entire  world  is  boldly 
asked  for.  The  sums  are  startling.  But  they  will  be 
raised,  for  men  love  a  worth-while  challenge.  Every  dol- 
lar of  it  will  be  used  to  fight  the  devil  and  not  for  inter- 
denominational competition.  The  next  ten  years  will  sec 
more  actual  business  done  for  the  Kingdom  of  God  b}- 
the  Protestant  forces  of  the  world  than  was  accomplished 
in  the  last  century. 

Four  Reasons  for  Success. 

The  success  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  will 
depend  first,  on  the  nearness  of  its  ideals  and  plans  to  the 
program  of  God;  second,  on  the  spiritual  emphasis  and 
power  in  each  department  of  the  work;  third,  on  the  san- 
ity, energy,  and  Christ-likeness  of  the  leaders;  and  fourth, 
on  the  extent  and  heartiness  of  the  co-operation  of  va- 
rious sections  of  the  Christian  church.  The  first  means 
right  aims;  the  second,  real  power;  the  third,  satisfactory 
machinery;  and  the  fourth,  the  sinewi  of  war — both  men 
and  money. 

On  the  March. 

The  Protestant  Church  of  America  is  on  the  march. 
The  movement  is  called  interchurch  and  it  means  a  mobi- 
lization of  the  Christian  forces  with  funds  and  the  spirit 
to  restore  the  commanding  touch  to  the  great  mission  of 
the  church.  It  does  not  mean  the  wiping  out  of  denomi- 
national lines,  but  it  does  mean  in  a  sense,  unity  of  com- 
mand under  the  great  Leader  of  the  church.  The  awaken- 
ing of  the  church  is  to  be  one  of  the  things  history  will 
record  of  the  period  in  which  we  live. 

World  Evangelization  the  Goal. 
The  greatest  religious  gathering  the  world  has  known 
since  the  early  councils  of  the  Church  met  at  Atlantic 
City.  Practically  every  Protestant  evangelical  denomi- 
nation was  represented  in  this  great  conference  of  the  In- 
terchurch World  Movement The  enterprise  is  ex- 
actly what  its  name  implies.  It  is  not  a  consolidation, 
but  strictly  interchurch.  It  is  not  something  for  America, 
but  is  world-wide  in  its  scope,  both  in  its  personnel  and 
in  the  object  of  its  endeavor.  In  fact,  evangelization  of 
the  whole  world  is  the  goal. 

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Pacing;  tht  Facts. 
On  every  gidc  to-day  accepted  itandarda  of  morality, 
the  very  foundations  of  relijfion,  are  being  assailed  by 
those  who  would  put  in  their  place  the  evanescent  pillars 
of  vague  and  unv^holesome  reasonings.  Bolshevism  and 
a  score  of  other  "isms"  denounce  all  that  man  has  found 
best  in  life.  The  Interchurch  World  Movement  is  based 
on  realization  of  these  facts. 

Business   Efficiency  in   Religion. 

Any  big  corporation  run  on  the  plan  that  churches  have 
followed  would  have  disintegrated  and  resolved  itself  back 
into  original  companies  within  a  twelve  month.  Strength 
lies  in  team  work  and  harmonious  operation  of  every 
branch,  and  it  is  to  the  good  sense  of  those  at  the  head 
of  the  different  religious  bodies  that  they  have  awakened 
to  the  importance  of  unity. 

Touching  the  Weak  Spot. 

Speakers  at  the  Interchurch  Conference  in  Boston  ad- 
dressed themselves  to  one  of  the  weakest  spots  in  our 
social  and  educational  scheme  when  they  commented  on 
the  comparatively  small  amount  of  time  and  money  de- 
voted to  the  furtherance  of  religious  education  among  the 
great  body  of  Americans  of  the  rising  generation. 

Bom  of  the  Spirit. 

It  must  not  for  a  moment  be  thought  that  this  (the 
Interchurch  Movement),  means  a  weakening  of  the  spirit- 
ual force  of  the  church.  On  the  contrary  it  includes  a 
summons  to  every  person  to  awake  to  a  realization  of 
his  full  duty  towards  his  Maker  and  his  brethren.  The 
Movement  was  conceived  in  a  spirit  of  prayer.  Its  in- 
spiration for  spiritual  brotherhood  and  service  to  all  hu- 
manity came  directly  from  the  Scriptures.  Plans  are 
being  made  to  enlist  all  those  wl  o  desire  to  pray  for  the 
Movement  in  a  great  fellowship —  .  gathering  together  in 
His  name  of  men  and  women  froj  a  -11  continents  and  from 
many  different  religious  bodies. 

A  World-Wide  F  rival. 

A  well-considered  program,  Y  .  ^  on  sober  facts,  will 
enlist    great    resources    both    in  and    money,    and    the 

effort  to  carry  out  this  progrj  nil  help  to  strengthen 
the  Christian  foundation  of  Arn.  ican  democracy  and  to 
discharge  in  a  notable  way  our  obligation  for  world  evan- 
gelization. It  may  well  be  true,  also,  that  the  success  of 
this  Movement  will  prove  to  the  world  the  essential  unity 
of  the  Protestant  forces  in  America.  God  grant  that  it 
may  be  the  beginning  of  a  worl'^-wide  revival  of  religion! 

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W.  E.  Schell,  J.  E.  Font. 

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